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DECEMBER 1990

VOLUME 12 -NO, 9 • ISSUE 124

Editorial License 6

PETER SCISCO

The power of computers and the im-
pact off television are creating a cul-
ture buill around informalion and the
moving image.
News & Notes 8

EDiTORS

New Macintoshes from the old Apple
tree. Spinnaker spinoffs, a way to re-
duce computer ejestrain, a fight for
computer piogr^mmer freedom, and
more notes on the news.

Letters 12

EDITORS
Praise for Shay, kudos all around.

Reviews 89

mrdStar 6.0 on the PC,
AmigaVision on the .^miga. Digital
Anisi on the 64, Inside Informalion
for the NSacintosh, and a whole lot
more.

Hotware 120

Best-selling software from around the
countr\'.

IN FOCUS

Tomorrow TV 14

EDITORS

Television has changed the world,
even as it has brought that world into
our living rooms. Now our computers
are changing television. Sometime in
this decade, the two technologies will
fuse into a personal communication
and information device designed for
the video age.

Desktop Video Here

and Now 22

HOWARD MILLMAN
You can add a complete video system
to your IBM PC for about J 1,000.
Here's how.
Conversations 28

KEITH FERRELL

The Media Lab at M.I.T. has its
hands on the TV of tomorrow— An-
drew Lippman, the Lab's associate
director, talks of the PC-TV
connection.
COMPUTE'S November
Sbanpak Disit 30

RICHARD C LEINECKER
Organize your audio collection, make
adjustments to your monitor, and
track your videotapes *ith this
month's collection of programs,

ON THE COVER

David Leich created Toshiba Greek Unraveling featured on

our cover. He used proprietary software called Visions to

generate polygonal computer graphics with image

mapping on a Harris 800 computer.

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HOME OFFICE

COMPUTE Clioice 32

TONY ROBERTS
If you've got accounting savvy,
PiKioli 2000 olfers you all the tools
you'll need to keep a topflight set of
books for your home office.
Workplace 40

DANIEL JANAL

Working at home doesn't mean you
have to feel like the Lone Ranger.
Time Is Money 40

RICHARD 0. MANN
Make your computer your sutingcst
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into profits. These ready-to-go soft-
ware kits put you on the road to
effective productivity.
New Products 54

Here's a look at some of the new
productivity products that can make every
home office run more smoothly.

ENTERTAINMENT

COMPUTE Choice 60

PETER SCISCO

PGA Tour Co/f combines realistic
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the world's top golfers.

GamePiay 66

ORSON SCOTT CARD
Simulations don't represent the real
worid because the real world is
boring.

Mind Games 70

EDITORS

COMPUTE staffers take a stab at the
software entertainment game by
imagining their own products. A few
surprises result.

DISCOVERY

COMPUTE Choice 78

LESLIE EISER

Learning math can be fun and excit-
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Don't Need a

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GREGG KEIZER
Here's how you can get personalized
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Pathways 88

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CQIUIPUTE

PC View P&1

CLIFTON KARNES
Windows 3.0 makes a big splash.
News & Notes PC-4

ALAN R. BECHTOLD

Is Ihere a color scanner in your

fijture?
Feedback PC-6

READERS

Top tips for compuler mainlenance

and cleaning.
Becoming a PC

Environmentalist PC^

GEORGE CAMPBELL

Luriting in a little comer of your PCs

meinor)' is information most users

never sec. Here's everything you'll

need to master iL
introDOS PC-16

TONY ROBERTS
Should you upgrade your DOS ver-
sion? Time-lested advice from our
resident expen.

Power Up PC^17

CLIFTON KARNES
Three super stocking stufTcrs for that
special power user in your life.

BASIC Training PC-18

TOM CAMPBELL
Why does QuickBASICs string han-
dling make C and Pascal pro-
grammers envious? Find out

Hot Tips PC-21

RE.\DERS

Those directory double dots revealed,
WordMaster mail merge, and more.
On Disk PC-22

GEORGE CAMPBELL
Keep track of your floppy disks, mas-
ter math, control your PCs environ-
ment, save your screens, and more.

Online PC-24

GEORGE CAMPBELL
Online games may be just the break
you need. Here's a look at the best.

Graphical User Interfaces
and Beyond PC-26

ROBERT BIXBY

Choose the user interface that's right
for you.

AMIGA RESOURCE

Amiga View A-1

R,ANDY THOMPSON
Bill Gates tells Randy, "Go west,
young man."
News & Notes A-2

EDITORS and SHELDON
"THE EAR" LEEMON
Neft\ new products, and insider
gossip.

Disney's Animation Studio
A-6

BEN and JE'^N MEANS
Taking a look at Disney-style anima-
tion brought to the .^iga, and the
capcd figure behind it all.

Feedback A-1 4

READERS and EDITORS
A Sticky situation, communication
breakdowns, turbochai^ged Amigas,
and more.

Programmer's Page A-18

RHETT ANDERSON and TIM

MIDKJFP

Amiga Resource veterans and

Neandersofl progtammeis Rhett

Anderson and Tim Midtiff look at

high-performance programming in

assembly language.

Abstractions A-22

ARLAN LEVITAN

In this episode, .\rlan discusses
trying out other computers, really
hea\7 software, and the evils of
porting code.

Spotlight A-24

JOHN FOUST

Transferring images between Amigas,
^facs, and PCs.
CU Clips A-26

JIM BUTTERnELD

You're missing out on some handy

CLI commands— who's Fault is it?

Just for Fun A-28

SH.A.V ADDAMS
As we watch the local consumer
electronics stores for signs of CDTV,
some developers arc rushing to get
titles out, while others are taking a
vrait-and-CDTV attitude.

Art Gallery A-30

Computer art on display: African Girl,
Pushpin, and Sufi Dancer.

Taking Sides A-32

RHETT ANDERSON vs.
RANDY THOMPSON
Does "try before you buy" shareware
software help the Amiga, or is it help-
ing to drive commercial software
developers out of business?

GAZETTE

64/128 View G-1

TOM NETSEL

A man in a red suit pays a holiday
visit to a M owner.
News & Notes Gh2

EDITORS

The 64 lives, say? Commodoie.
Take a Scan at This G^

ROBERT BIXBY

Esamiric a new hand-held scanner for
the 64 and 128.
Programmer's Page G-1 2

RANDY THOMPSON

Try these three delightfiil dazzlei^

sent in by readers.
Beginner BASIC G-1 4

LARRY COTTON

Program multiple sprites.
D'lversions G-1 6

FRED D'lONAZIO
Is there an agent in your computer?
Machine Language G-1 8

JIM BUTTERRELD

Lcam about the 128's BANK
command.
Feedback G-21

EDITORS and READERS
Mail about a dynamic loader, a birth-
day daubase, and more.
PROGRAMS

Crown Quest G-2S

DANNY ENGLISH

Stock Market T28 G-30

GARY DYGERT

Fuse G-33

HUBERT CROSS

High VoHago G-36

PETER M. L. LOTTRUP

Text Filter G-38

KHTH GROCE

MAC View M-1

DAVID ENGLISH
Boot-on-demand publishing.
Getting Organized M-2

STIVEN ANZOVIN

Five personal database programs thai

cost less than J 100.
HomeCard M-8

ROGER WOOD

Using text in HyperCard 2.0,
Apple Picks IVI-7

GREGG KEIZER
Create your own Christmas
newsletter.
News & Notes M-8

DAVID ENGLISH

System 7.0 slips up; Soviets link up;

older Macs speak up.

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EDITOR ALTICENSE

PETER

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Except for the invention of mov-
able type and the printing presses
that it spawned, no medium has
had as dramatic an effect on
popular culture as the television.
From its humble start half a century
ago to the sophisticated array of im-
ages it presents today, television's im-
pact has been felt by almost every
civilization worldwide. More and
more, our collective memory is
shaped by television images.

What I remember about growing
up with television: The orange glow of
vacuum tubes. The mysterious white
dot that lingered when the set was
switched off. My family's first color
set, into the house far after most of the
neighbors had made the change. A set
of rabbit-ear antennas that looked hke
a prop from a B-grade sci-fi flick and
did nothing for reception. Only two
channels, the local NBC and CBS
affiliates.

Though it should've been a won-
der, and I suppose it was
to my parents and
grandparents, the TV
quickly became just an-
other thing that had al-
ways been there, no
stranger than the radio
or the phonograph.
Television in the sixties,
fueled by millions of
baby-boomer eyes,
framed the cusp of a
new American culture,
one set apart from pre-
vious generations by its
reliance on the moving
image as an essential, if
not primary, communi-
cations medium.

Almost since its in-
ception, TV has been re-
viled as an enemy to
literacy and critical
thinking, a vulgar de-
vice of endless chatter
and images, bubble gum
for the eyes. Looking at
television's emphasis on
entertainment (even in
its presentation of the

"news"), it's difficult to argue against
that view. But with the advent of per-
sonal computers and the inventive fu-
sion that's already taking place
between that technology and televi-
sion, the future of television may yet
dismiss those arguments as shortsight-
ed. Television provides a commonal-
ity of experience and is the
cornerstone of what Marshall Mc-
Luhan called the global village, a
phrase that takes on added meaning
in the age of the personal computer.
As a multifaceted communica-
tions device, TV has surpassed all but
the most outlandish predictions. And
even those predictions considered too
far out (or bad financial risks, like
videotex) may eventually come to
pass as technologies such as HDTV
and fiber optics become common-
place. Even so, TV remains the Rod-
ney Dangerfield of communications, a
technological marvel taken for grant-
ed and given no respect. No one calls

the TV the visually enhanced audio
information unit; everyone calls it the
tube.

Computer technology may
change all of that. Televisions have
for some time now embraced silicon-
based circuitry at the expense of tubes,
solder, and wire. The line that sepa-
rates a television from a computer is
blurring. Entertainment centers across
the country bristle with TVs that look
and act more like computer monitors
than traditional television sets. Hard-
wired and cable-ready, the latest gen-
eration of sets represents the first step
in digital-information delivery for all
consumers. That delivery, from a va-
riety of sources, is the next logical step
for TV and for consumer computing.

In its ability to process infor-
mation, the home computer exceeds
the capability of the most advanced
television. Television, by comparison,
excels in its ability to disseminate
information. It can be argued which
capability is the more
powerful — the one that
promotes an individ-
ual's access to and mas-
tery of information or
■ • the one that carries a

message to more people
faster and with more
impact than any other
single device on the
planet.

Either way, the de-
velopment of the per-
sonal computer and the
evolution of the TV arc
proceeding along paths
of ultimate intersection.
Where they will meet.
sometime in the mid to
late nineties, is a digital
world of customized
information delivery
and manipulation.
Smart TVs, customized
news services, personal-
ized entertainment ven-
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through your door by
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Spinnaker
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Spinnaker, the company respon-
sible for such hit educational titles
over the years as FaceMaker,
SnooperTroops, and KidWriter,
has decided to concentrate its ef-
forts on productivity softw/are.
The company sold its Spinnaker
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ware lines to Queue, a Fairfield,
Connecticut, software company.
Queue will continue to sell all
of the Spinnaker and Springboard
educational products, said Jona-
than Kantrowitz, CEO of Queue,
In addition, it will bring back some
products that Spinnaker was no
longer marketing and revise some
of the older titles. Spinnaker,
which began as an educational
software company in 1 982, sold
off the titles so that it could con-
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New Mac Attack

Seeing an "at-home computer" market rather than a "home com-
puter" market, Apple Computer unveiled in October a new line of
lower-priced Macintosh computers, but it didn't announce the long-
rumored $ 1 ,600 color Mac.

Three new Macintosh models were introduced. The Mac Qassic
has the familiar upright look and built-in monochrome monitor of the
SE and Plus models. The Classic comes with 2 megabytes of RAM, a
40-megabyte hard disk, and a keyboard; it carries a suggested retail
price of about $ 1,500. A single-floppy disk configuration is available
for around $1,000.

The Macintosh LC (for Low-cost Color) is modular, with a sepa-
rate monitor and CPU. The CPU unit itself is the sleekest of all Macs,
with a small footprint and thin case. Aimed at the business, education,
and at-home markets, the LC with 2 megabytes of RAM, a 40-megabyte
hard disk, a 12-inch RGB color monitor, and a keyboard should have
a suggested retail price of about S3,000.

The upper tier of the market was addressed by the Macintosh Ilsi,
another modular Mac. Configured with 2 megabytes of RAM, a 40-
megabyte hard disk, a 13-inch high-resolution color monitor, and a
keyboard, the Mac Ilsi (for Simply Irresistible) was expected to carry a
suggested retail price of around $4,600.

Both the Mac Classic and Mac Ilsi were to be available on the Oc-
tober 1 5 announcement date. The LC was, at press time, to be an-
nounced in October, but it may not be available until early 1991.

The decision to equip all configurations of the new Macs with at
least two megabytes of RAM means that the computers are ready for
System 7.0, the latest and much-delayed update of the Macintosh op-
erating system software. System 7.0 is expected to be released early in
1991.

Both the LC and Ilsi come with a microphone, allowing for sound
input as well as output. For the education market, an Apple He emula-
tion board for the LC was announced, but it wasn't expected to be
ready before the spring of 1 99 1 ; the board should retail for under $200.

While the new Macintoshes don't directly address the home con-
sumer, at least not with color, as had been widely expected, the ma-
chines do represent a substantial shift in Apple's pricing strategy. The
LC fills a gap in the modular Macintosh line, providing for the first
time a relatively low-cost color-Macintosh capability. Street prices for
the new machines should be substantially lower than suggested retail
pricing.

Apple representatives declined to comment on the recent rein-
vigoration of the home computer by IBM, Tandy, and others. Com-
puters in the home, according to company spokespersons, are
extensions of those in the office or the classroom rather than being true
home information appliances. In other words, if you're not using a
computer for work or school, you may not have much need for one at
home.

Apple representatives also noted that the company's Apple II and
IlGS lines would continue to be supported,
^KEITH FERRELL

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DECEMBER 1990

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Supercomputer Medicine,

Eli Lilly, the fourth largest U.S. pharmaceutical firm, has added a
Cray-2 supercomputer to the arsenal of tools it's applying to the devel-
opment of new drugs.

Because pharmaceutical research rests upon complex molecular
modeling — remember those colored Ping-Pong balls and straws from
high school chemistry? — the arrival of the supercomputer is expected
to speed up the research process. The Cray-2 enables researchers to
"build" proteins and enzymes, depict them on monitors, and simulate
their interaction with experimental pharmaceutical compounds. Using
the computer, scientists can rotate, assemble, disassemble, and view
chemical structures in a fraction of the time previously required.

Lilly scientists and researchers have undertaken training in super-
computer operation and are applying the Cray-2 to the search for cures
or treatments for AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and other currently in-
tractable medical challenges.
—KEITH FERRELL

Software Justice
League of America

The computer software industry is increasingly litigious, and program-
mers are banding together to protect their ability to create new software
without fear of being sued.

The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was founded to op-
pose look-and-feel lawsuits, software patents, and other monopolistic
computer industry practices. Richard Stallman, president of the organi-
i^ation, Is best known as the founder of the Free Software Foundation,
a group that has, among other things, worked to create a freely distri-
butable UNIX clone called GNU.

The LPF points to the Lotus Development suit against Paperback
Software, where Paperback was found guilty of infringing on Lotus's
copyrights because its spreadsheet obeyed the keystroke commands
used in Lotus 1-2-3 and had a similar user interface. The LPF's position
paper opposing the look-and-feel copyrights compares this suit to a
company filing a user-interface copyright on the steering wheel.

"During the span of the copyright, we would have gotten cars
steered with joysticks, cars steered with levers, and cars steered with
pedals. Each car user would have to choose a brand of car to learn to
drive, and it would not be easy to switch," the paper states.

LPF members are also concerned about software patents. The
U.S. Patent Office has issued patents on techniques the organization
calls obvious, such as using an exclusive OR (XOR) to display a cursor
(a technique used by most computers) or the technique of storing an
obscured part of an onscreen window in memory so it can be redrawn
quickly when the obscuring window disappears.

More than 2000 software patents have already been granted, the
LPF says, with 700 granted in 1 990 alone. The organization worries that
if obvious or easily derived programming techniques are patented, the
sheer number of patents will keep small companies out of the software
business. Patent search fees and licensing costs make software devel-
opment prohibitively expensive. New York-based REFAC Technology
Development, for example, owner of the patent rights for the natural-
order recalc technique used in spreadsheets, is demanding 5 percent
of all earnings from spreadsheet sales.

The LPF plans to serve as an information resource and to actively
lobby against programming restrictions. For more information, contact
The League for Programming Freedom, 1 Kendall Square #143, P.O.
Box 9171, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, or call (617) 243-4091.

—DENNY ATKIN

THE
EYES

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Computer usen can dramatically

reduce eyestrain by using indirect
lighting, according to a new study
from Cornell University.

The study compared con-
ventional computer-area over-
head fluorescent lighting with
indirect, bounced fluorescent
lighting. Workers who used con-
ventional overhead lighting had
25 percent more complaints of
eyestrain.

The study found 71 percent
of those using the indirect light-
ing and 74 percent of those using
conventional lighting preferred
the indirect lighting. The most
popular form of lighting consist-
ed of lensed indirect fluorescent
lights that focused light toward
the ceiling.
—DAVID ENGLISH

Rejected
Suitor

The signs read "Drop the Suit,
We Have You Surrounded" and
"Can Las \fegas Sue Atlantic
City?" as about 320 marchers
protested Lotus Development's
recent bout of lawsuits protecting
the look and feel of 1-2-3. The Au-
gust 2 rally at Lotus's Cambridge,
Massachusetts, office was orga-
nized by the League for Program-
ming Freedom (LPF). The LPF
believes user interfaces shouldn't
be copyrighted.

Highlights of the demonstra-
tion included the protesters' hex
chant: "1-2-3^, kick that lawsuit
out the door; 5-6-7-8, innovate —
don't litigate; 9-A-B-C, Interfaces
should be free; D-E-F-0, look-and-
feel has got to go."
—DAVID ENGLISH B

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Addams Admired

r am in the process of upgrading from
a Commodore 64 to an IBM done.
Since I became interested in the PC
world, I began to read your magazine
and have recently bought a subscrip-
tion. Let me tell you, I think your
magazine is great. It has the right bal-
ance between business and entertain-
ment software, and I love it,

I have one suggestion, though. I
used to subscribe to Commodore
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Since I have switched to COMPUTE,
I only miss one thing from Commo-
dore Magazine. It is a monthly col-
umn that Shay Addams wrote, which
was dedicated totally to adventure
(RPG) games. Mr. Addams would
have reviews and hints and would
keep us posted on the newest games. I
really think it would be great if COM-
PUTE could adopt something like
this, and I think other adventurers
would, too,

JOSHUA EUDY
STATESVILLE. NC

Good news, Joshua. COMPUTE
readers whose edition includes the
Amiga Resource section will be able
to enjoy Shay Addams's ideas on a
regular basis. His column is called
"Just for Fun. " For the rest of our
subscribers. Nebula and Hugo award
winner Orson Scott Card continues
his meditations on computer games
every month in "GamePlay. "

October Issues

I just got your October magazine, and
it is GREAT! I love the new setup and
the way you split up the information
into different sections.

I subscribed in June and got my
first magazine on September 14, and
the subscription is due to expire next
June, which is obviously not the full
12 months. Will I get all 12 issues?

Also, do you have a special
COMFt/re edition for just IBM own-
ers? That's the part I read and focus
on.

One suggestion I have is to make
the SharePak and the On Disk avail-

able for Amiga, Commodore, and

Macintosh users.

I would hke to mention that I
thought "How to Get Started with
Programming" was an excellent idea
for anybody who might like to learn a
Uttle bit more about different pro-
gramming, and it may even get some
people interested in it. I also think
that the "Feedback" column is very
helpful.

STEVE RISH
INDIANAPOLIS. IN

Thanks for your encouraging re-
sponse to the October issue. We're
glad your like the new format, and
we appreciate readers' comments
and suggestions.

Rest assured that you will get
all of your subscription, which be-
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run for 12 months. During the tran-
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our new corporate parent, we took a
brief hiatus.

We do print a special edition
just for MS-DOS computer owners.
If you would like to change the edi-
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us know when your subscription
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time, enjoy the added home com-
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the Amiga Resource and Gazette
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Your suggestion about disk
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12 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

CDfUlPUTE

EDITORIAL
Editor in Chief Peter Scisco
Art Director Rot>in Case
SBnior Editor Keith Ferrell
Managing Editor Oavid Hensley Jr.
Editor. PC Cfifton Karnas
Editor, Amiga Resource Randy Tlioitipson
Edhor, Gazetto Tom Nietsel
Associate Editors Denny Atkin
Robert Bixb/
David English
Assistant Editor Mike Hudnali
Copy Editors Karen Huffman
Karen Siepak
Edilorlai Assistant Kandi SyKes
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Anderson. Afan R.
Bechtold. Jim BiJtterfieid,
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Tune. Ik ih ^utUAe

If you've had it up lo here
with uninspired, overpro-
duced, poorly acted, and
badly written comedies,
dramas, commercials,
documentaries, game shows, car-
loons, lalkfests, and newscasts, take heart. The
most successful consumer electronics product of
the century and the most influential information
technology of all time are coming together to cre-
ate hundreds, even thousands, of potential new
products, programs, services, and opportunities.
After half a century of analog life, television is
about to become a digital medium. Your televi-
sion is entering the computer age.

Television waves, like radio waves, use a
portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and
there's only so much spectrum to go around, A
variety of distribution alternatives are now avail-
able, all made for the digital world. Fiber optics
can carry tens of thousands of digital signals at
once — and carrj^ them not only from source to
receiver, but also from your receiver back out
into the world. Compact discs and laser discs are
already being used as video publishing media.
Computers increasingly possess TV-like capabili-
ties, just as TVs contain larger and larger
amounts of computing power.

The ramifications of that power can only be
glimpsed today. Who, 50 years ago, would have
predicted the myriad ways television has
changed society? Our purpose, here, is to offer a
few informed glimpses, imagine a few conse-
quences, and make some qualified guesses.

There's an underlying conceit to our specu-
lation, and that's the idea of interactive
television.

Once a television program — or anything —
has been digitized, it can easily be manipulated.
We're all familiar with the convenience of word
processing, the pleasure of interactive computer
games, the potential of electronic learning. Add
full-motion video and high-quality digitized
sound to the equation, and you're on the brink of
TV that we control, rather than the other way
around.

What exactly does this mean for all of us
couch potatoes stretched out in front of the tube?
Don't touch that dial — you're about to find out.

J\p^ 05 OfM. W £y£

, At Apple Computer, multi-
media is where television,
film, music, and interactive
computer programs come to-
gether. A top-of-the-line Mac-
intosh can display any of 16.7
million colors, providing tremendous potential
for displaying lifelike pictures on your computer
monitor. Link this system with the superb sound
of audio CDs, the 54,000 still or moving video
images available from a single laser videodisc,
and the vast software storage capacity of CD-
ROM discs, and you'll soon see why many in the
industry think we're on the verge of truly interac-
tive television.

Apple's CEO John Sculley himself set the
tone for Apple's vision in Odyssey-, his 1987
autobiography. In that book, he described what
he called a Knowledge Navigator, "a tool as gal-
vanizing as the printing press."

To make Scuiley's dream come true, Apple's
multimedia lab is working closely with Lucas-
film Games to develop the new visual vocabu-
lary t-hat will join computer graphics with video
images. Much as D. W. Griffith had to invent
cinematic techniques in his early films because
there was no one to teach him, today's multime-
dia pioneers face the challenge of building an en-
tirely new art form.

Some of the new video tools are truly star-
tling. In one of Lucasfilm's techniques, a Hyper-
Card flip-book animation moves to the edge of
the computer screen, disappears, and then con-
tinues, as live video, on an adjacent television
screen. A Macintosh coordinates the transfer of
image from computer screen to TV screen. .Apple
and Lucasfilm have also collaborated with the
Smithsonian Institution and the National .Audu-
bon Society to combine new technology with ar-
chival film and video.

As early as 1983, Apple acknowledged that
we think visually as well as linguistically. With
faster processors, better display technologies, and
more sophisticated compression techniques,
computers are rapidly moving toward full-
motion video. By merging the best of video and
computer technologies, we may soon see the day
when television at last lives up to its potential —
as a true window on the world and an instrument
for learning about ourselves. t>

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE fS

Ik 'Eke, Tube

Businesses and cor-
porations are turn-
ing to television as
a training aid lo
heip improve
efficiency, increase
productivity, and aid employees in ac-
quiring new skills. IBM is already
marketing a variety of interactive TV
tools and applications aimed at busi-
ness and institutional needs.

Big Blue's approach to interactive
video training began in 1 983 with a
product called Info- Window, which
combines an analog video signal, typi-
cally from a videodisc, with a personal
computer equipped with a touch-
screen monitor. More recently, the
technology has evolved into the M-
Motion Video Adapter, a system that
can take an analog signal from any
NTSC {American television), PAL
(European television), or other video
source, digitize it, and display it either
full screen or in a window format on
any VGA computer monitor. In ef-
fect, M-Motion lets employees watch
TV at a workstation while running
other computer programs.

"Employers might be a little dis-
appointed to see you watching soaps
in the afternoon," says IBM Market-
ing Manager Peter Blakeney, "but
some of our clients require it. We sold
a good number of these [systems] to
the National Security Agency. They
have a requirement that certain staff
monitor the news services, CNN, C-
Span, and a few other networks to
keep as current on late-breaking hap-
penings around the world as the CIA,
FBI, or any other agency."

Operators monitor the television
signal in a window while the major
portion of the screen is occupied by
word processing or other more tradi-
tional computer activities. If a certain
story on the video feed merits more
attention, the operator can at any time
bring the signal to full screen and in-
crease the volume.

In most applications, however,
the video signal will come from a tape
or disc rather than from a live TV sig-
nal. "There are enormous markets
that we see for multimedia," Blakeney
says. "There's training: industrial, on
the job, and skill transfers. There's
education: kindergarten on up. There's
merchandising, where we place multi-
media kiosks out where the shoppers
are and try to compel them to buy,
augmenting retail employees."

Another application includes
commercial and business presenta-
tions. Interactive TV presentations
can be as simple as a product presen-
tation at a sales meeting or as complex
as a conceptual presentation by an ad-
vertising agency to a client.

1 OoMMDdoiie.'s
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What better way
to sneak compu-
ters into unsuspecting
homes than by marrying two of the
most popular home entertainment
devices: the television and the CD
player?

That's what Commodore is try-
ing to do with CDTV, an Amiga-
based multimedia CD-ROM player
designed for home use. While appear-
ances aren't everything, CDTV's sleek
black VCR-like cabinet certainly
looks more at home next to the stereo
than on the computer desk.

"We've taken a Trojan Horse ap-
proach by putting computer capabili-
ties into a familiar box; it just
becomes a natural expansion of the
home entertainment center," says Da-
vid Rosen, Commodore's director of
international marketing.

Rosen believes CDTV will be ac-
cepted by consumers who have previ-
ously avoided computers. CDTV, he
feels, will be seen as an enhanced CD
player. Along with computerlike edu-
cational and entertainment software,
CDTV will also play standard audio
CDs and CD+G (CD plus Graphics:
audio discs vvith visuals, computer
graphics, or lyric texts encoded on un-
used tracks). CDTV isn't being mar-
keted as a CD player with a computer
inside, but as a CD player that plays a
bigger variety of discs.

"Consumers have no problem
moving from a single medium to mul-
tiple media," Rosen explains. "TVs
aren't just passive terminals anymore.
In the past few years, consumers have
been attaching VCRs, videogames,
computers, and laser discs to them;
and all these have made TV accept-
able as an interactive medium."

CDTV's success will depend
upon its software. "Consumers don't
care about boxes; they care about [en-
tertainment] programming." says Ro-
sen. Recalling the spreadsheet that
essentially created the microcomputer

industry. Commodore hopes for a
CDTV version of Visicalc, a product
so impressive, so unique, that people
will buy a CDTV player just to use it.

"It's like MTV and music vid-
eos," Rosen says. "Cable TV created a
new entertainment genre. No one an-
ticipated it. We don't know what we
will be doing with the [CDTV] tech-
nology two years from now."

i The future of com-
puter education is
here now, and it's
called interactive
video. This tech-
nology combines an
interactive computer program with as
much as two hours of video from a
single videodisc. Sometimes a CD-
ROM player is added to the mix for
an additional 650 megabytes of
computer-based material.

Ufe Story combines full-motion video,
Interactive text, and hypermedia
indexing to make television come alive.

The Voyager Company, of Santa
Monica, California, specializes in la-
ser-disc and interactive multimedia
programs. To get a sense of the
breadth of Voyager's interests, look at
just a few of the company's recent re-
leases: Eadweard Muybridge: Motion
Studies, Vienna: The Spirit of a City.
Bird Anatomy II. and The National
Gallery of Art.

Life Story, developed by Lucas-
film, the Smithsonian Institution, and
.\pple Computer, includes the 1986
BBC drama "Race for the Double He-
lix" and adds sound bites, video clips,
text profiles, computer-generated dia-
grams, and videotaped interviews
with the scientists involved in the
search for the structure of DN.A.. The
information in Life Story is indexed
through a DNA-like double helix —
one strand indicates scenes from the
BBC drama while the other leads to
supplemental information. t>

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sources include an entire biology te.xt-
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popular topics. Teachers can preview,
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titles and narration.

Unlike other electronic media,
interactive video lets students and
teachers set their own pace and active-
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capacity of laser discs and CD-
ROMs — where a single disc can con-
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museums or all the text from a com-
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Imagine putting
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Accessing databases throughout the
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Better yet, how about a "per-
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news sources around the clock, col-
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Very quickly, the TV set comes to
"know" your interests and act accord-
ingly on your behalf.

Some of the required technology
is already in place. Closed-captioning,
for example, may serve a dual purpose.
In addition to enabling the hearing-
impaired to receive information,
those captions may serve as an index
to television content. "Search," you
might tell your TV, "for every men-
tion of the planet Mars in the past 24
hours." A moment later, the set re-
ports its findings.

Rudimentary experiments with
interactive news are in development.
Call-in programs have long offered
one level of interactivity. Earlier this
year CNN experimented with viewer
selection of news stories. ABC News
has developed interactive videodisc
presentations for classroom use. Sev-
eral large news agencies have experi-

mented with videotex services, deliv-
ering wire reports directly to homes.
Tomorrow's evening news will
likely be an amalgam of all these ser- .
vices and approaches, delivering
deeper and more useful information
than Edward R. Murrow could ever
have imagined.

This much power
will doubtless be
regulated by the
federal govern-
ment, won't it? Not necessarily.

Since so many of the new com-
puter/television technologies and de-
livery systems don't use traditional
radio frequencies (RF), traditional
means of regulating TV broadcasts
don't apply.

"You can transmit anything you
want to over fiber optic, and we don't
care. Fiber is not RF, and it's outside
our purview," says John Reed, elec-
tronic engineer, Technical Standards
Branch, Federal Communications
Commission.

It's different with traditional ca-
ble transmissions. "Cables radiate
RF," Reed says, "so the FCC regulates
it. But fiber doesn't radiate — only
where it actually interfaces with trans-
mission and reception equipment to
convert light to RF energy does the
FCC get involved."

In Reed's view, fiber is coming
online just in time. "The spectrum's
already too crowded," he says.
"You're not going to be able to load
tens of thousands of new signals onto
it. There's only about two megahertz
of unallocated spectrum left — and
everybody wants it."

Although the FCC isn't the only
government agency overseeing the
media. Reed sees regulation as a mi-
nor issue. Far larger is the question of
whether or not the fiber network
needed to create interactive TV will
ever be put into place.

"Putting in a cable system was
expensive," Reed says, "but a fiber
system will be even more expensive.
It's going to take a lot of capital."

If broadcast television serves as
an example, computer TV will also
generates lot of capital. And that
should ensure solid investment.

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three months. The marriage of com-
puters and television enables advertis-
ers to target a specific audience and to
deliver very specific information.

Many of the tools and techniques
of interactive television are being de-
veloped on existing telecommunica-
tions services, and some online
ser\'ices already carry advertising. Ads
on Prodigy, for example, are tied to
the gender and age of the user, as well
as to the editorial content of the
service.

If, for example, you spend time in
Prodigy's food and wine area, you will
be shown gourmet food ads. If that
"leader ad" piques your interest, you
can elect to see more information. Ac-
cording to Steve Hein, program man-
ager of communications with Prodigy
Services, the ad package immediately
fills one viewer need: instant gratifica-
tion. Another advantage of the self-
selective ad package is that it is
nonintrusive — only interested viewers
receive the extended ads.

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Our time's up al-
ready? But we
haven't even
scratched the
surface! Hardly
a glance at interactive
TV entertainment, barely a mention of
the role the phone companies may play
in all of this, not even a nod at the
global implications.

And there are questions yet un-
raised. Where do the networks fit into
this brave new picture tube? What
creative video tools will we have in
our homes? How far can all of this go?
The answers to these questions?
Stay tuned. Q

Senior Editor Keith Ferrell coordinated our
PC-TV connection coverage. Staff members
Denny Atkin, David English, Tom Netsel, and
Liz Casey worked the remote control.

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Just as camcorders replaced 8mrn movie cameras,
within five years still-video imaging will banish 35mm
cameras to the dusty shelves of the Museum of Vintage
Technology. Long overshadowed by its more popular
relative, the camcorder, still-image video remains an under-
used technology. This is partly due to a misconception
about its high initial cost. While the elaborate systems used
by computer graphic artists and
professional photographers (es-
pecially in the film industry)
cost megabucks, savvy shoppers
can assemble a consumer-grade
system for about $ 1 ,000.

The system we assembled
included Canon's Xap Shot
camera, a ComputerEyes Pro-
fessional image-capture board,
Spinnaker's graphic-editing
software Splash.', and the graph-
ics-printing program Pizazi
Plus. We also tested US Video's
combination VG.A. and genlock
video card. The results we
achieved with our Si. 000 video
system ranged from fair to
good. And with the addition of
two more sophisticated editing
packages — Tempra and Picture
Publisher Plus — our results
were nearly spectacular.

Zap — You're on TV

Manipulating complex graphic
images creates heavy demands

on a computer system. To avoid expiring from old age at
the keyboard, you need a 286. 386. or PS/2 computer with
640K; DOS 3.0 or higher; a VGA card (preferably Super-
VGA) with at least 256K (better yet. 5 1 2K or more); a
multifrequency monitor; and a high-resolution mouse or
trackball.

The $595 list ($500 street) price Xap Shot behaves
much like other point-and-shoot cameras. The on-board
electronic circuits determine the exposure, speed, and range
to subject. .A built-in LCD panel displays track numbers
along with the mode (single shot or three per second), low-
battery warning, and disk-related problems. A flash auto-
matically fires in low ambient light. With its 2,8 lens,
indoor pictures often require a flash.

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HERE'S HOW,

The Xap Shot electronically records images on magnet-
ic media. With its two-inch internal disk, the Xap Shot can
be fairly described as a camera married to a portable disk
drive. The resemblance is more than superficial, since the
Xap Shot acts as a disk drive when displaying stored images
on a computer or television. The images are filed by track
number and retrieved for processing using the camera's ad-
vance and reverse buttons.

The jacketed disk accepts
50 images in the camera's 786
X 250 pixel format. Extra disks
cost S 10, or you can delete the
images and reuse the disk.

After you've taken your
pictures, the Xap Shot links to
the ComputerEyes expansion
card with a single coax cable
(supplied by Canon).

Importing the image into
the computer proved to be as
simple as Mother Goose. Digi-
tal Vision's bundled software.
Eyes, while not quite as lovable
as it could have been, stream-
lined the task.

Using Eyes, you first pre-
view any or all on-disk images
before committing to a capture.
The Xap Shot's drive takes
about 20 seconds to travel
through all 50 tracks. When you
find the image you want to digi-
tize, you simply hit a key. De-
pending on the display res-
olution selected, the software
requires 1 0-25 seconds to digitize the Xap Shot's composite
video signal and redraw it on the monitor.

With the image now digitized and displayed, you can
perform some fundamental editing with Eyes — including
globally raising or lowering the image's red, green, or blue
components, as well as its contrast and intensity.

In addition to still video, the ComputerEyes board also
captures frozen-frame video generated by a video camera.
Capturing and editing full-motion video in realtime, how-
ever, requires both a digitizer and a signal synchronization
device called a genlock. US Video's modular TVGA board
lets you expand your system when and if the need arises.
The company's separate genlock daughterboard and digitiz-
er module (functionally similar to the ComputerEyes >

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Professional) piggyback onto the main
VGA card. With 512K. US Video's
board provides a resolution of 1024 X
800 X 256 colors.

In addition to the Xap Shot's sig-
nal, ComputerEyes can also capture
images generated by VCRs, videodisc
players, and still-image cameras mar-
keted by Panasonic and Sony. While
the ComputerEyes board performs
well for image capture, implementing
advanced editing techniques requires
more potent software.

Testing the Waters

Spinnaker's Splash!, a hybrid paint
program and entry-level editing pack-
age, includes functions specifically
designed for image capture and re-
touching. The program's icon-driven
menu, coupled with its straight-
forward features, makes it extremely
easy to use.

Splash! includes the requisite
basic editing techniques, including
color fills, pattern copy /repeat, indi-
vidual pixel editing, multiple patterns.
brush sizes, and color swaps. Addi-
tionally, you can rotate, resize, and
merge captured images,

You can experiment with the
many samples included with the pro-
gram, or you can import your own
graphics. .Although Splash! saves to
disk in standard image formats such
as PCX. TIF. and GIF, it imports
only its own graphics format (SS). An
odd omission, but not lethal. We used
Digital Visions' software to import a
TGA graphic, saved it in SS, and sub-
sequently loaded it into Splash!.

Another limitation is Splashl's
maximum image resolution of 320 X
200 (VGA or MCGA). As a result, the
image details and menu icons appear
fuzzy, (Images displayed in a 640 X
480 resolution appear much sharper.
but these higher resolutions are non-
standard and usually require special
video drivers). .Also, some of the pro-
gram's more advanced features, such
as color blending and the alternate
canvas, need clearer instructions or

THE HIGH COST OF COLOR

Electronic recording devices, including
VCRs and still-video cameras, generate
analog signals. The number of colors in
an analog signal ranges to infinfty.
When converting the camera's analog
signal into a digital form, video capture
boards reduce the number of colors in
the signal to either 16 or 256. Why? Be-
cause, in a digital format, having more
colors requires more memory and in-
cremental technology. That translates
into higher prices and consumer resis-
tance. High-end realtime digitizers from
Everex, Tnjevision, and Matrox, for in-
stance, cost $2,000 or more.

perhaps a simple tutorial.

Despite these limitations. Splash!
lives up to Spinnaker's reputation
for software that's easy to learn, capa-
ble, and — with a street price of $60
($99.95 list) — inexpensive.

Taking the Plunge

•At four times the price of Splash!
($395 list or $300 street price), the
next level in editing software delivers
five times the muscle. In fact, Mathe-
matica's Tempra integrates all the es-
sential paint features with commercial-
quality image-manipulation, special-
effects, and text-overlay features.

With its multiple icon-based
menus, backed by a logically orga-
nized manual and sample images,
Tempra accomplishes the handhold-
ing necessarj' to flatten its learning
curve. The program's seemingly end-
less array of editing features includes
antialiasing (to smooth jagged lines),
regional or global masking (to protect
specified colors or locations), selective
color swaps, color-contingent anima-
tion, image-warping with perspective,
and multiple Bitstream fonts with the
international extended character set.
The program also automatically uses
available expanded memory to exe-
cute memory-intensive functions and
provides a volatile Undo buffer,

Tempra's intended market is seri-
ous hobbyists and economy-minded
pros. Unfortunately, this means limit-
ed printer support. Presently, the pro-
gram supports just Hewlett-Packard
LaserJets and compatibles and two
thermal color printers.

Dive Right In

Tempra may provide all the editing
muscle you'll ever need. If, however,
you decide to "go pro," you'll need
the more sophisticated and exotic fea-
tures found only in professional edit-
ing applications.

Astral Development's $695 ($500
discounted) Picture Publisher Plus
weighs in as one of the least expensive
yet comprehensive professional edit-
ing applications available. Here, the
term least expensive is relative.

For example. Publisher Plus runs
under M/cro5o/f Windows {$ 125 street
price). And since time is money for
professionals, add two megabytes of
extended memory ($200-$ 600) to
keep the current image in faster vola-
tile memory.

This investment provides access
to special effects such as texturizing,
posterization, highlighting/shadowing,
mosaics, multiple imported-image
collages, interpretive resolution
changes, paint smears, scatterprinting,
vignettes, and silhouettes. Additional-
ly, Publisher Plus imports scanner im-
ages (it contains a universal scanner

SETTING STANDARDS

When IBM defined the 256-color VGA
graphic standard, it stopped at 320 X
200 resolution. While every major video-
board manufacturer adheres to that
standard, it's inadequate for image edit-
ing. At least a dozen strategies from as
many vendors exist to extend VGA up
to 1024 X 768 resolution with 256 col-
ors. Therein lie the seeds of chaos.

Implementing these SuperVGA
standards requires cooperation be-
tween software publishers and board
manufacturers. Within certain limits,
these two groups do collaborate. As a
result, most image-editing software
supports the extended modes of select-
ed VGA boards made by Video Seven,
ATI, Orchid, Paradise, and STB.

One caveat: Before upgrading your
video card or purchasing editing soft-
ware, make sure that the hardware and
software are compatible.

interface) and captures images directly
from selected high-end digitizer
boards.

Publisher Plus includes two tuto-
rials and numerous sample images
along with detailed step-by-step instal-
lation and operation instructions.

The original Picture Publisher
(without the Plus) worked exclusively
with gray-scale images (256 shades
from black to white). The present
manuals still emphasize gray-scale im-
aging and deal with color imaging in
an all-too-brief addendum. Consider-
ing the wealth of features in Picture
Publisher Plus, clarity of instructions
is essential. According to the publish-
er, updated manuals to accompany a
more color-oriented revision should
be available this December.

You've captured and edited the
image — now you want to do more
than just display it on a monitor or
television. You want to print it. One
option is to purchase Hitachi's $ 1 ,400
entry-level color thermal printer
(model VY-I50A). You might also
consider Hitachi's $4,000 computer-
compatible VY-200A.

One less-expensive option in-
volves using the printer you already
own. Application Techniques' Pizazz
Plus enables you to do exactly that. A
well-behaved RAM-resident graphics-
printing utility, PZ+ captures text or
graphics screens and provides exten-
sive printing control along with some
elementary image-editing features.
One of the best of its editing features
provides for printing unadorned
black-and-white graphics in multiple
shades of gray.

With more than 400 drivers,
PZ+ lets you print graphic images on
a wide variety of dot-matrix, laser,
thermal, monochrome, and color
printers. This $ 1 49.99 ($70.00 street
price) utility will prove invaluable if

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The Media Lab at M.I.T. just
might be the hottest of all the
world's hotspots for research into
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future television is too narrow a phrase
to describe all the areas Media Lab re-
searchers are looking into.

"The focus of what we do and
have been doing for 15 years," says
Andrew Lippman, the Lab's associate
director, "has to do with the merger of
computing and image distribution.
We variously explore that from the
perspectives of education, technology,
and entertainment."

Do those different perspectives
change the nature of the research?

"Sometimes," Lippman says, "you
think of that as interactive systems,
and sometimes as high-definition tele-
vision. But fundamentally and under-
neath those superficial distinctions, a
lot of the work is very similar. It all
addresses how you can smoothly
merge what we've learned about com-
puting and digital processing and im-
age communications systems."

That smooth mei^er faces some
obstacles, many of them imposed on
television years ago. To understand
the obstacles, Lippman compares
TV's approach to images with the ap-
proach taken by computers.

"The focus on high -definition
television, here," Lippman says, "can
be encapsulated in one word: scalabil-
ity" For example, the Macintosh's
small screen has 4 SO lines; the screen
on a NeXT computer has 700 or 800
lines. An even bigger screen would
carry even more lines. "The constant
in these kinds of systems is the lines
per inch, the density of lines," he ex-
plains. "And as you gel a bigger
screen, the density stays the same, and
you get more lines."

That might sound logical, but it
isn't the way television works.

"Only in television do you fix the
number of lines," Lippman says.
"And when you want a bigger display,
[you] literally take those lines and
spread them farther apart. That is
counterintuitive; it just doesn't make
any sense.

"We might do better in the next
round if, instead of designing a TV
system to be 500 lines, or 1000 lines,
or some number like that, we opti-
mized it for a system where [the num-
ber of] lines was not the number you
specified, just like it isn't on a com-
puter screen."

How would such a design change
our household TVs?

"Your little TV under your kitch-
en counter might have 500 lines on it
because it's only 4 inches high," Lipp-
man says. "The one at the foot of your
bed, which is a 19-inch set, might
have 1 000 lines. And the one that's on
your wall — the lines on that will de-
pend on your architect more than [on]
the designer of your television."

Andrew Lippman

Designer TV sets? Sure. "Like-
wise," Lippman says, "the shape v/iW
depend on your architect, as opposed
to a Standards decision made in
Washington. Kind of like theaters,
where the shape of the screen is really
the shape of the room. Maybe you
should get your television set so that
it's shaped to fit above the mantel, or
along the wall. Scalability is the key."

The signal that scalable TVs
would receive is as important as the
sets themselves. "Having it be an end-
to-end digital system at all phases is
crucial because of the increasing num-
ber of digital channels and the increas-

ing degrees of freedom that are
afforded by digital representations,"
Lippman says.

Marrying scalable television sets
with digital signals lays the ground-
work for future television.

"If you can do that, then you
have sown the seeds for future devel-
opment of the medium," Lippman
says. "You're no longer just sending
out an analog 30-frame-per-second, or
50-frame, or 60-frame, motion pic-
ture; you're sending out data."

And that is the heart of the PC-
TV connection. "Your [future] TV set
has already got the processing needed
simply to turn that data into a pic-
ture," Lippman explains. "That's 90
percent of a sophisticated computer.
We can add the other 10 percent, give
the TV some smarts, and let it start to
help you make up the programs."

How dramatic a shift will this be
for viewers accustomed to passive
television viewing?

"You know, some [personalized
TV technologies] are out there, in fun-
ny ways that you don't recognize,"
Lippman says. He cites a viewer's
ability to program a VCR to tape pro-
grams for later viewing. "You're mak-
ing up your own television, but it is a
crude job," he says. "The control is
pretty limited. All you can tell it is
clock time and TV station to tape."

Tomorrow's television, thanks to
computers, will offer more control. "If
I can add content decisions to that,
[for example: ] 'Watch the TV all the
time for me. and if you see anything
interesting about the world oil crisis,
grab it, and I'll ask you later.' That
seems like a large step, but it's not,"
Lippman says.

Whatever the capabilities of up-
coming television sets and systems,
Lippman argues, the technologies
must evolve on several fronts at once.

"The point is, can you make sys-
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Today's monitors have come a long
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continued from page 33

ing an invoice is quick and easy: Sim-
ply type in the account number or se-
lect it from the accounts list, and the
pertinent information is pasted into
the invoice. Then type in the product
numbers for what the customer or-
dered, and product descriptions and
prices are filled in, and the appropri-
ate discounts for that customer are
applied.

You can operate Pacioli 2000 by
using the keyboard, mouse, or both,
but mouse support is limited in some
areas. For example, when scrolling
through the chart of accounts, you'll
need to use the keyboard Page-Up and
-Down keys if you want to move more
than a line at a time. The scroll bars
aren't as fully featured as you might
be accustomed to.

This system is designed for daily
use. Transactions are entered as they
occur; then, at the end of the day, the
printer goes to work, churning out the
results of the day's activities. Invoices,
packing slips, receiving slips, credit
memos, account statements, and
checks can be printed on forms avail-
able from M-USA. Then the daily
journals are printed, reviewed, adjust-
ed, and reprinted if necessary.

Once the daily Journals are cor-
rect, the transactions are posted. Post-
ing is the process of placing all of the
day's transactions into the various ac-
counts your company uses. During
posting, several files are modified, and
both the manual and the program are
quite insistent that you back up your
data files before posting. Pacioli
2000's posting process involves a fair-
ly painless, though time-consuming,
backup process that utilizes the DOS
Backup command. The procedure is
automated and requires only a key-
press or two to complete.

Pacioli 2000 also can be used as a
point-of-sale system, printing out in-
voices and receipts on the spot.

The system uses specially de-
signed teal and gray, multipart, car-
bonless forms for invoices, state-
ments, and checks. These forms and
associated envelopes, cards, and labels
are available by mail order from M-
USA. Samples of each of the forms
and checks are included in the pack-
age, so you'll be able to check with lo-
cal printers to see if any of their stock
matches that used by Pacioli 2000. M-
USA claims to have the only official
forms for use with the program, but
purchasing forms locally, if they're
available, is usually less expensive
and faster.

By using Pacioli 2000 's checks
and forms, you can significantly sim-

#HOME OFFICE

pliiy your bookkeeping work. Write a
check or process an invoice, and the
appropriate transactions are entered
automatically in the daily journal. If
you choose not to use the special
forms and checks, you can still benefit
from Pacioli 2000 by writing checks
and invoices manually and then en-
tering the transactions into the sys-

Track purchase orders and sales in-
voices— even with no inventory on hand.

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cessed using the keyboard or mouse.

tem. Pacioli 2000 will keep up the
daily journal and general ledger. A
disadvantage of this approach, besides
time lost, is that you increase the
chance of error because data is en-
tered twice.

Pacioli 2000 is fairly rigid in its
output. You can't adjust the check, in-
voice, or statement output formats. In
the printer setup menu, the only op-
tions you can modify are the page
length and the control codes for nor-
mal, compressed, and expanded type.
.A dot-matrix or other impact printer
is required to print checks or forms,
and the manual recommends using
such a printer for reports as well.
Laser printers aren't supported to any
degree.

All forms and checks are sent to
the LPT I printer port, and there's no
provision for redirecting them. Re-
ports, however, can be sent to the
screen or be redirected to a file, which
you can edit or print later.

While using Pacioli 2000, you'll
amass a great deal of information
about your company and its vendors
and customers. The program's report
section gives you the tools to manage
that information. The system includes
several predefined reports that will
satisfy most of your needs, and it in-
cludes a report generator that can be
used to arrange the information for
more customized reports. Pacioli
2000 keeps up to 36 months of ac-
counting data online, so reviewing re-
cent history is as easy as looking at
yesterday's data.

Pacioli 2000 puts a lot of ac-
counting power into your hands. It's
network ready, it offers a tiered pass-
word system to protect your data, and
it allows you to enter terms and dis-
counts on a customer-by-customer ba-
sis. The program also includes an
auditing module to help you reconcile
your checking accounts, verify the ac-
curacy of your records, and keep an
accurate count of your inventory. Pa-
cioli 2000'% budgeting function will
help you create future budgets based
on past performance.

There's a great deal of capability
here for a relatively small price. With
Pacioli 2000, small and growing busi-
nesses can set up an accounting sys-
tem without worrying that they're
spending a lot of money on something
that won't work for them. M-USA
promises free customer support for
registered users.

If nothing else, the experience of
working with Pacioli 2000 and com-
ing to understand your company's fi-
nancial data will make you better able
to hire an accountant to do the books.
As the owner, you're responsible for
everything, and you can't afford to
give up control of something as im-
portant as your money.

Ease of Use

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Pacioli 2000

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Think back to your office days
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■ ime is money. You spend time
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after week, wisely or tbolishly.
k. You use time to make money
or — by not using time efficiently — to lose
money. This alarming realization has
helped fuel the boom in datebook orga-
nizers, those ever-present leather note-
books so many people carry. Software
developers, ever alert to a trend, have
created equivalent time-management
systems for personal computers.

The computer is a valuable ally in
the struggle to convert time imo money.
Three classes of software assist in this
battle: time managers, personal infor-
mation managers, and time-tracking
and billing programs. t>

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE

Principles of Time Management

"Classic lime management hasn't
changed in 2000 years," says Hymm
Smith, founder of the Franklin Insti-
tute, a national time-management
training firm and publisher of the
best-selling Franklin Day Planner.
"Time management is simply the con-
trolling of events. The issue is decid-
ing which events you can control and
learning how to control them."

The basic elements of time man-
agement are well known: determine
goals, set up a prioritized schedule or
calendar, keep notes on your daily ac-
tivities, and maintain a database of
important contacts and clients.

Goals. First, determine your
goals. This is an essential step too
often left out of time-management ad-
vice. Without clear goals, you can
manage even' minute of your day
with perfect efficiency and still never
accomplish anything worthwhile.
Good time managers ensure that the
right events take place.

Prioritized to-do list and calen-
dar. Second, identify activities that
lead to your goals. Put them on your
daily to-do list, the basic tool of time
management. Each day you need a
clear picture of what you want to
accomplish.

Once you have the list of your
dayls activities, analyze it carefully
and assign priorities. When you plan
the next day, carry unfinished tasks
forward.

Your day-planning sheet should
also have a place to show your ap-
pointments. Keep a set of monthly
calendars showing your time-related
commitments.

Notes on daily activities. To man-
age time efficiently, you need a place
to keep the important notes usually
written on scraps of paper and lost. If
you promise to call someone next
Thursday or meet with the PT.A on
the second Tuesday of each month,
you'd belter write it down where you
can find it.

Personal database. Finally, you
need a personal database. .Addresses,
phone numbers, bank account num-
bers, important dates such as anniver-
saries, and your notes from the last
time you talked to someone — capture
all these things in a single, accessible
place.

Time-Management Style

How you choose to apply these princi-
ples will var\' great!>'. What works for
you depends largely on your view of
life, your way of thinking, and your
personal style. Some of us focus on
time itself while others focus on tasks,
projects, and processes. Still others
concentrate on the people involved.
Some key on goals or results: the end

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is ever in mind, and all else exists
merely to create it.

How do you design a single piece
of time-management software that ap-
peals to everyone? You can't. Instead,
software developers have created a
variety of products, appealing to indi-
vidual styles of time management.

These programs range from per-
sonal information managers (PIMs),
such as Arriba and Instant Recall, to
simpler daily schedule managers, such
as Top Priorily, who-'-vhal-when, and
OnTime.

These programs reflect their
designers' personal styles and time-
management beliefs. If you find a pro-
gram that shares your style, you'll
really like it. If you end up with a mis-
match, you'll be frustrated, wondering
why the dolts who designed the pro-
gram won't let you organize and man-
age things logically.

Fair Warning

Before we discuss these programs, you
need to be aware of a problem.
Smith's Franklin Institute found out
the hard way that once you've used a
good datebook organizer, you're un-
likely to be happy with a computer-
based system for long. Two years ago,
a $70,000 development effort pro-
duced the Franklin Day Planner on a
disk. The beta testers — techie power
users, all — went back to their Frank-
lin Day Planner books quickly, even
though the software worked perfectly.

Why? Smith says that the need to
have their schedule and personal data-
base with them at all times out-
weighed the benefits of computeriza-
tion. "If you're into a computer for
managing your time, you're into a
double-entry system, like it or not,"
he says.

Smith's beta testers were accus-
tomed to a superb paper-based sys-
tem. For the great majority who now
do little or no formal time manage-
ment, however, these easy-to-use
computer-based systems provide an
excellent introduction to the marvels
of mastering time.

Time Managers

Here are a few of the best and most
popular time managers on the market.

Top Prion'tj'. The time manager
known as Top Priority focuses on the
day's activities, both to-do items and
appointments. Its printed daily sched-
ule page is a work of art, duplicating
what you'd find in a normal datebook
organizer, printed using decorative
fonts, boxes, and lines. It provides
room for handwritten changes and
noles.

Top Priority's excellent manual
gently teaches time-management con-
cepts, including the importance of set-

DECEMBER 1990

ling goals and relating them to your
daily lasks. It encourages you to orga-
nize your tasks into projects, with
step-by-step tasks as subtasks, yet it
handles tasks not related to a project
just as easily. Priorities range from A
to Z, with subtasks getting an individ-
ual subpriority.

Top Priority has no extra person-
al database features, but it exchanges
data with Power Up!'s market-leading
powerhouse Calendar Creator Plus.

who-what-when. Although best
suited to managing projects, who-
whal-when provides dynamite ways of
gaining alternative perspectives. It
looks at projects from a what view-
point (what's being done), a when
perspective (how the events are se-
quenced and the stages of project
completion), and a who outlook (lists
of tasks assigned to different people).

While it shines at managing pro-
jects, who-what-when feels cumbersome
when managing masses of small, unre-
lated tasks. It lacks a usable overall
calendar view of your schedule, though
it has a report showing which days
have tasks in them. It has a limited
priority scheme, and its old-fashioned,
plain-text reports can be hard to read
and use.

who-what-when excels at manag-
ing large projects, especially if there
are several people involved. It com-
pares schedules, reviews delegations,
and cross-tabulates relationships
among people and projects in every
way imaginable.

OnTime. If you're looking for a
lean, highly effective daily scheduling
machine, you're looking for OnTime.
It works on appointments and to-do
items only and doesn't rely on your
being at the keyboard throughout the
day.

You plan your day ahead with
OnTime anA print a single two-sided
planning sheet, which folds into thirds
and slips into your purse or coat pock-
et. Inside the folded sheet is a detailed
appointment calendar covering daily
appointments for as many as seven
weeks.

The outside fold shows today's
appointments with room to add more
by hand. The second fold shows your
day's to-do list, sorted by priority. The
final fold contains an annual calendar.

This single sheet of letter-sized
paper contains all the basic infor-
mation you need lo manage your day.
It's an elegant solution to basic time-
management needs, but it doesn't cap-
ture any other data. It's direct, simple,
and easy.

Personal Information Managers

One step up from the simple time
managers are personal information
managers. Here's a look at some of
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T INFRARED IMPROVEMENT

Home infrared heat treatments are an
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T THE BUSINESS CARD COMPUTER

Carry your office with you. The world's
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he infravib Mas-
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contimwd from page 48

the best and the brightest.

Arriba. The way to visualize Ar-
riba is to picture a file cabinet full of
folders. In each folder is a set of relat-
ed information, which can be any-
thing from simple text to a structured
minidalabase of your own design.
There arc built-in folders for to-do list
processing, a phone list, and other
functions.

Arriba is fast. If you know that
somewhere in all your folders is a note
containing the birthday of the daugh-
ter of the president of ABC Company,
for example, just search for.-JSCand
daughter. The note is onscreen almost
instantly.

But how is it for time manage-
ment? It's adequate, but that's not its
strong point. If you need some of the
finer elements of to-do list processing
and calendaring, look elsewhere. If
your time-management needs are
modest but the prospect of custom
minidatabases is alluring. Arriba is for
you.

Instant Recall. A fast PIM with
an entirely different outlook is hut am
Recall. It provides four basic ways of
viewing your personal database:
notes, tasks, schedule, and people. De-
pending on your style, any of these
views can become the primary focus.

The step-by-step task/subtask
processing of who-what-when and Top
Priority won't be found in Instant Re-
call, making it more suited for work
that doesn't involve a time-related se-
ries of component tasks leading to
completion of an overall task.

The strength of Instant Recall is
that it can run as a memorj'-resident
program, ready to instantly pop up
over other applications. Bigger PIMs

have TSR modules that run a subset
of the program, but Instant Recall's
entire program is there whenever you
pop it up, and it only takes about 28K
of RAM when dormant. Arriba uses
about 200K to do the same thing.

Time-Tracking and Billing

If you bill clients for your time, you
need a time-tracking and billing pro-
gram. It simplifies your recordkeeping
process and handles the drudgery of
accumulating information from origi-
nal sources into sorted, detailed,
priced invoices for your clients.

Even if you aren't at your com-
puter all the time, the amount of work
these programs do behind the scenes
justifies the occasional double-entry
process of copying handwritten notes
into the computer. Don't lose money
because you didn't track your time
well enough to bill it accurately.

TimeSheet Professional. A time
sheet is a document that lists client
tasks down the left and hours in col-
umns under day headings across the
top. TImeSheel Professional auXo-
mates the process of maintaining a
time sheet. You can enter time and
expense amounts in any slot on the
time sheet and attach long notes
using a pop-up window. Notes and
expenses can be printed on bills at
your option.

And, of course, TimeSheet Profes-
sional keeps track of time for you.
You just put the cursor in the cell for
the job you're doing and hit a key. and
it starts timing. When you slop the
timer, the elapsed time is charged to
the job for you.

Timeslips III. The market leader
in time-tracking and billing programs

is Timeslips III. Its metaphor isn't the
time sheet but a time slip, a small
piece of paper on which you write a
code and the time spent on a job.
These are typically accumulated and
processed by an accounting clerk who
turns them into invoices. Time slips
are often used by law firms and others
who have too many active projects go-
ing to fit neatly onto a time sheet.

Timeslips III does more than
TimeSheet Professional. It offers more
codes, more classifications, more
ways to determine billing rates, and,
unfortunately, a few more ways to get
confused. Thai's offset by an out-
standing, clearly written manual.

Timeslips III is really a billing
program, producing professional-
looking invoices effortlessly in a vari-
ety of formats. It gets downright
serious about tracking what's owed to
you, even supplying aged accounts-
receivable reports.

A Final Caution

These programs arc fun — maybe too
much fun. You can get so caught up in
managing your time that you fritter
away the very thing you're working to
conserve. Add a computer to the mix,
and the temptation to really get orga-
nized can end up eating away your
precious time. Don't be overorga-
nized, more interested in being orga-
nized than in accomplishing anything.
Time management is doing the right
things at the right time, not just keep-
ing track of what you've done. 3

Richard O. Mann is an internal auditor for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. His bool<, Working with Windows 3,
will De released in the spring of 1991.

Arrlbs 1.01

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PC compatibles with 384K and a hard

PC compatibles with 320K

PC compatibles with 384K

disk

$69.95

$99.95

$195.00

Campbell Services

Calendar Creator Plus 3.0

Good Software

21 700 Northwestern Hwy.

PC compatibles with 320K or Macintosh

13601 Preston Rd.

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$59.95

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(313)559-5955

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Franklin Day Planner (a book)

TimeSheet Protesslonal 1.2

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(800)851-2917

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PC compatibles with 51 2K; hard disk

Franklin International Institute

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$149.95

PC compatibles with 51 2K and a hard

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Software Partners

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Instant Recain. 2

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Chronos Time Management Software
555 De Haro
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Chronologic

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Tucson, AZ 85704

Timeslips

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52 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

BRING YOUR

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Backup Zinger

Central Point Software is now offering
the backup program in its PC Tools
Deluxe Version 6.0 package as a
stand-alone program — Central Point
Backup.

The new interface in Central
Point Backup, the most graphical in
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gram, makes it easier to select files
and options and thereby encourages
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selections, making it easy to launch
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line. With the built-in scheduler, you

Central Point Backup has an easy-to-use
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can perform unattended backups. To
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Central Point Backup lists for
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Opening Up Windows

Microsoft is offering its Supplemental
Driver Library (SDL), a collection of
device drivers supporting approxi-
mately 126 hardware peripherals, in-
cluding printers, video displays,
pointing devices, and other peripher-
als that run under Windows 3.0. Some
of the drivers provide support for new
peripherals, while others provide en-
hanced performance or new features
for previously supported peripherals.
This is the first in a series of periodic
releases of additional Windows device
drivers.

The SDL has a broad distribution
scheme to give you fast and easy ac-
cess to the drivers you need. More-
over, the SDL disks can be freely
copied and distributed among li-
censed Windows users within a com-
pany. You can download the SDL
from online services such as Micro-
soft OnLine, CompuServe, and GEnie
at no charge. Optionally, you can or-
der the SDL from Microsoft directly
by calling (800) 426-9400. There's a
nominal $20 charge to cover the cost
of the 3'/:- or S'/i-inch disks on which
the SDL is distributed.
Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond,
WA 98052-6399
Reader Service Number 3S2.

Micro Micro

Isotropic Computer, a PC designer
and manufacturer, is producing the
smallest 80286-based motherboard on
the market. Based on the revolution-
ary Chips and Technologies Single
Chip AT (SCAT) product, the dimin-
utive board measures 4X7 inches. It
operates at 12 MHz or 16 MHz, and
plans call for a version that would op-
erate at 20-1- MHz (as soon as C & T
offers the faster chip). Features in-
clude a variety of memory configura-
tions— up to 16MB — with a selection
of plug-in memor)' boards, selectable
wait states, full LIM EMS 4.0 support,
BIOS shadow ROM support, and a
socket for an 80287 coprocessor. Iso-
tropic is the first manufacturer to de-
velop and release a system board
based on this C & T design.

Isotropic's motherboard will be
100-percent IBM compatible and will
initially be offered in a slimline cabi-
net and a regular AT-style cabinet.
Isotropic Compuier.E. 5920Sellice Way.
Post Falls. ID 83854
Reader Service Number 353,

Fun with Words

Ever wish you could supply the defini-
tion and have your computer come up
with the right word? Now you can
with Inside Information from Micro-
lytics. It's a comprehensive hierarchi-
cal dictionary that organizes the
English language into categories of de-
fined words. According to the compa-
ny's president, Mike Weiner, "Inside
Information presents the ideal organi-
zational structure for language in the
electronic age."

The program begins with seven
genera! word classes: Nature, Science
& Technology, Domestic Life, Institu-
tions, Arts & Entertainment, Lan-
guage, and the Human Condition.
The seven classes are broken down
into 20 subclasses, 125 categories, 700
subcategories, and more than 65,000
root-word entries. You can view the
words with an Outline view, which
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CHOICE

PETER SCISCO

COMBINE REALISTIC
PLAY, SPECIAL EFFECTS,
TOURNAMENT PLAY,
AND THE ABILITY TO
PLAY WITH SOME OF
THE PGA'S TOP
GOLFERS, AND YOU
HAVE A GOLF GAME
THAT SCORES AN
EAGLE

The key to any sports simulation
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thing. Most golf games pin their
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and in offering PC duffers a choice of
clubs. Some go so far as to include
wind and other environmental fac-
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Put your skills to the test on any
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PGA West Stadium. But before you
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the Pro Shop. This opening screen
provides menus for Play, File, View,
Stats, and Options and is a good ex-
ample of the detail built into the PGA
Tour Go//" interface. You can pull down
menus and play the game with key-
board commands, a mouse, or a joy-
stick. From the Pro Shop Play menu,
for example, you can hone your driv-
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Round, or move to a Tournament.

The other Pro Shop menus han-
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steady chart of your progress — or lack
of it. The Tour, after all, consists of
more than one game. Trying to stay at
the top of the rankings is as much of a
challenge as is sinking a 40-foot putt.

60

COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

The mechanics of
PGA Tour Golf mow
the traditional power-bar
method: You aim your
shot by moving a cross-
hairs cursor to the right or
left; then you press the space
bar or a button (joysticlc or
mouse) for distance and accuracy,
Overswinging (moving past the 100-
percent power line) increases the
chance of a hook or slice. Accuracy
depends on your striking the space bar
or pressing the button at the point at
which the power indicator returns to
the 0-percent line. Hooking and fad-
ing the ball around obstacles plays a
role as well and it's good to practice
these techniques on the driving range.

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An arsenal of special shots enhances
the realism in this duffer's dream.

Graphically, the game is a plea-
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approach to the green and the hazards
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you to make such adjustments, en-
hancing your enjoyment of the game
no matter what kind of computer you
own.

Out on the links, the game sug-
gests the right club for every situation,
but you can put it back in your bag

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE

61

# ENTERTAINMENT

and choose another if you like. You
can even choose the mix of clubs you
want in your bag at the start, which
lets you customize the game to your
golfing style. Unlike most golfing sim-
ulations, the club you have at any giv-
en point on the course is not simply
rated at a certain distance at 100 per-
cent (that is, a 9 iron isn't always rated
at 112 yards); rather, the potential dis-
tance of any club is affected by the lie
of the ball. For example, that same 9
iron might be rated at 112 yards from
the center of the fairway but only 57
yards from the deep rough — and even
less if your ball is half-buried in the
rough.

Once you're on the fairways, it's
easy to see why this game earned the
endorsement of the PG.A Tour: The
detail of play is accurate right down to
the lie of the ball and unpredictable
gusts of wind. The wind meter at the
bottom left of the screen swings
around with every gust and stops only
when you begin your swing. On a long
hole, you may want to wait for the
wind to swing your way before trying
that long drive.

You not only have to deal with
the wind, but you also must contend
with the vagaries of the ground. If
your ball is sitting in the fairway, for
example, you would get a better shot
than you would if the ball is half-
buried in heavy rough. Special pop-up
overlays describe the condition of
your lie before everj- shot except for
the drive off the tee. I found the infor-
mation crucial to my making deci-
sions along the course, but if you find
these screens distracting, you can turn
them off

Golf is a lot more than just
swinging a club, of course. Like great
pool players, great golfers know how
to work a ball to gel the best roll, the
fortuitous bounce. When you're ap-
proaching the hole, PGA Tour Golf
gives you a choice of shots to make
from its Options menu when you se-
lect Special Shots. Shortcut keys for
these shots are also available, so you
don't have to go through the motions
of pulling down the menus. The F7
key, for example, lets you chip your
shot. There are also options for
punching your shot (great for getting
out of deep rough with some measure
of accuracy, with the sacrifice of dis-
tance) and for pitching your shot out
of bunkers.

In any case, whether you chip the
shot from 1 3 yards out and send the
ball rolling across the green for the
birdie, punch the ball low to get out of
the rough, or putt the bail from the

fringe of the green, you'll appreciate
the variety and realism that these shot
options add to the game.

When you do reach the green.
PGA Tour Golf brings to the screen a
topographical representation of the
green, with a grid that helps you iden-
tify the breaks — both their angle and
severity. Using the Fl and F2 keys,
you can walk around the green to ex-

Start the tournament at the pro tent.

Tips from the pros can help you plan a
strategy from the tee to the green.

Use the game's topographic grid to read
the green and sink that birdie.

amine your shot from different ang-
les. The distance your ball lies from
the hole and the distance your ball sits
above or below the cup are listed at
the top of the grid screen. That infor-
mation is indispensable to making a
successful putt. In a nice touch, the
game allows you to aim your shot
from the grid screen by positioning
the crosshairs; when you return to the
normal view, your target position is
carried over.

After a few practice rounds, if
you feel ready to go for the money,

you can take your bag on the tourna-
ment circuit to compete against some
of the biggest names on the men's
tour, (It's unfortunate that Sterling
Silver Software doesn't offer an
LPGA mode. I should think that there
are some women out there who'd en-
joy a good computer golf game. May-
be in a later version or as an add-on
disk — right, guys?)

The tournament mode brings in
the great golfer's equalizer: psycholog-
ical pressure. If you make the first cut,
you advance to the second round (no
mean feat). Make that cut and then
the nest and you find yourself among
the money winners. PGA Tour Golf
keeps stats on all the golfers, including
the pros, so that you can check your
standings against the top money win-
ners at any time.

The tournament mode brings in a
few more graphical touches, such as a
pop-up screen that announces the
standings from time to time as you
play. For example, before making
your approach shot to the 8th hole,
you may learn that Hale Irwin birdied
the 16th to move into third place. At
the end of each hole, the leader board
screen gives you a quick picture of the
standings. It lists the players, what
hole they're shooting, and their stroke
total. Page through the leader board to
find out where you are in the pack;
then plot your comeback or watch
yourself fade. Without a doubt, you'll
soon find yourself caught up in the ac-
tion and trying to make up lost
ground or trying to defend your nar-
row lead. But stay steady — golf is
played by the stroke, not by the putt.

Golf is one of the fastest growing
sports in the country, which may have
something to do with the booming
success of computer golf games. With
its attention to detail, its special
graphics effects, its tournament mode,
and its realistic play, PGA Tour Golf
scores an eagle.

Playability *****

DQCumentation ****

Originality ****

Graphics *-***

IBM PC and compatibles with S12K—
$49.95

Package indudes 55-page manual, quick-
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Some people judge a simulation
game by how closely it resembles
doing the real thing. I think those
people are crazy. That's because
most simulations represent tasks that
real people do — as their jobs. As
work. The people who really do these
jobs usually find them to be so weary-
ing and difficult that they can't wait to
get home and relax by playing a game
on the computer.

Admittedly, some people are
frustrated with their careers and have
fantasies of doing something else for a
living. Those people probably appreci-
ate a chance to do every tedious detail
of somebody else's job. I don't think
flight simulators are particularly fun.
To me they seem like astonishingly
boring work. Obviously, some people
really enjoy these simulations.

Most of us, however, buy games
not to work, but to play. To me that
means the game author's job is to ana-
lyze the real- world job, discover the
parts that are fun, and then let the
player do only those parts while the
computer takes care of all the icky
boring tasks.

If this were done well, almost any
job could become a game. But it isn't
usually done well. Many gjme writers
seem to work overtime to ensure that
their simulations make the player do
all the boring jobs while the computer
gets to do most of the cool stuff.

There was only one SitnCity, a
unique bright spot in the endless tedi-
um of simulation games. Then I
played Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon
(Microprose).

After giving up on Design Your
Own Train as a monster from Inter-
face Hell, I had begun to despair of
anyone's ever doing an adequate job
of making a computer simulation of a
model railroad.

Well, Railroad Tycoon is not a
simulation of a model railroad. It's a
simulation of entrepreneurial eco-
nomics in the transportation business.

Of course, if they put "simulation
of entrepreneurial economics" on the
box, nobody would buy it. But if the
interface is humane and the simula-

tion lets you do the fun parts, almost
anything can be fun.

Much of the freshness of the
game comes from the fact that the
landscape is never the same twice,
both because the game is transformed
by the player's choices and because
every time you play, the landscapes
are transformed so that towns that
were big the last time you played are
nothing much this time. The world is
always new, and it's always different
because you're playing.

But there's something else going
on here, too. Human beings have a
fundamental hunger to create things,
to make things grow. I think that's
much of the appeal of Risk and its
best-ever computer offspring, Ro-
mance of the Three Kingdoms. These
aren't war games. They're games
about assembling empires.

That's what the great entrepre-
neurs do, too. John D. Rockefeller
didn't conquer his competitors in or-
der to beat them — he was perfectly
happy to buy their companies and
leave them in command. He wasn't
trying to win, nor was he trying to get
rich (he gave away large amounts of
money long before he had that much
of it). Instead, he was trying to create
the perfect oil company, one that in-
cluded everything from the wellhead
to retail sales. Like Alexander the
Great, he didn't want to destroy his ri-
vals; he simply wanted to become so
large that he could contain them all.

Thai's the impulse behind Railroad
Tycoon. Or is it?

Here is what's really glorious
about this game. The game's authors
don't make you play it just one way.
What if you're one of those crazy peo-
ple who actually want to do the day-
to-day work of scheduling a railroad? I
know they exist — they're the ones
who build the huge model train lay-
outs in their basements, put on engi-
neer's caps, and stay there for hours
just running the trains and making
them keep to a schedule without col-
liding. You can change an option in
Railroad Tycoon, and the computer
stops scheduling your trains for you.
Now you get to do it, and if you blow
it, trains crash.

That's the key: If you want to do
the scheduling, you can do that, and
the game will be fun for you. But if,
like me, you think of it as having to
do the scheduling, you can skip that,
and the game will be ftin for you.

And that isn't the only way that
game writers have opened up the
game for us. We can keep business
competition on a friendly basis or
make it a cutthroat kill-or-be-killed af-
fair. We can fuss with the details of a
complex economy, worrying about
which cargoes will be carried where,
or we can keep it simple and spend
our lime trying to grow the railroad
into new markets.

The same great displays, the
same intuitive interface, the same fun
animation routines — but you're play-
ing at running a railroad while I'm
playing at building a transportation
network, and she's out to kill the com-
petition, and that truly crazy person
over there is playing at macroeconom-
ics. Same box. Same disks.

I tell you, folks, this is a danger-
ously radical idea-letting the player
decide what kind of game he wants to
play. If other game writers start doing
the same thing, the real world might
grind to a hall as games become so
much more fun than reality that no-
body can stand to go to work any-
more, I know what I'm talking about.
It's already happened to me. H

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DECEMBER 1990

up, up, and away! Most kids learn to spell by learning to drill. Now Super Spellitopter mokes spelling
a thriltwith high-resolution graphics, smooth scrolling, and high-speed animation.

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Now SpelKng Is
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Wotch out for that UFOI Super Spellicopter turns
your personal computer" into a helicopter cockpit
with Intelligent, tactical radar and letter-seeking
missiles to help zero-in on target letters.

Something to shoot for.
Super Spellicopter challenges players
aged 7-14 with 400 words in 40 lists,
and 3 levels of difficulty. You can
even add words to strengthen specific
spelling skills.

It's spellbinding. Super Spellicopter from Britonnica
Softwore, It's not just fun, it's guaranteed to improve
your child's grades.' For the name ond location of
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THE MOST REMARKABLE

Like all relaxations, you can put them down whenever you like.
• Like all great passions, you won't be able to.
• Like all great pleasures, they last for years.

Like life itself, they are a struggle of
unparallelled scope and ardour.

• They are enacted on a stage of breath-taking landscapes.

• They dennand brutal intrigue
and ruthless leadership.

• Very soon all the vacancies
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and if you introduce a friend,

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The Quebec Conference. From left to right, in the
foreground: Mackenzie King, prime minister of
Canada, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

It was a desperate plight in which the 14th Regiment of the Line found itself, the French square harshly pressed.

World War II, The Napoleonic Wars and Muskets & Mules
are revolutionary play-by-rnail wargames, reproducing with
perfect historical accuracy the conflicts themselves. You
play a key figure in the military-political heirarchy of a
major power of the time. Each turn you will receive
beautifully printed maps, on which the deployments of your
proud subordinates or loyal troops are displayed. Each turn,
you move your forces into strategic positions to frustrate
your enemies or to support your allies within the game.
Whether you are Napoleon Buonaparte, General George
Patton. Adolf Hitler, or any one of countless others, you will
be thrown into an unprecedented theatre of alternate
history. In these unique and amazing interactive wargames,
you direct the destiny of world history.

British ships of the line after Nelson's triumph at Aboukir Bay.

WARGAMES EVER CREATED

WORLD WAR II

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

and MUSKETS & MULES

Productions of: Historical Simulations, Inc.
WORLD WAR II

In Wor/d War // you are one man at the top of the military-political
heirarchy of a key power of the time and weave your own thread into
the collective creation of all players which Is the whole game,
Whether you become General Rommel recently ordered to
command of theAfrika Korps, Field Marshall Coring fibbing about
the strength of the airforce oi: Adolf Hitler, josef Stalin, President
Trumam, Winston Churcliill or whatever role you don World War II
puts you into an unprecedented theatre of alternate history.

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

Between 1798-1814 a straggle for world hegemony was waged.
From Napoleon Buonaparte's decision to invade Egypt, to

\ French hussar and a dragoon talk with their
sentries posted nearby.

:gyi ,
Alexander I's to champion Mecklenburg, the decision which led to
the downfall of Napoleon, the history of Eurasia twisted and turned.
History could have diverged profoundly from its actual course.
Nelson should have caught Napoleon en route to Egypt destroyed
him and inadvertently preserved the Republic. Napofeon should have
triumphed in 1813.

The tapestry of these struggles was dark to its creators, its final
outcome obscure and inevitably the result of a panoply of individual
efforts. For example, the French were undone in Spain by
Napoleon'."! inabifity to personally supervise the campaign.

MUSKETS & MULES

During the years 1805-1610 a four-cornered struggle for hegemony
raged over German and Italian speaking Europe. Empires rose and
Empires fell. In the course of this epochal clash of powers the first
French Empire under the Emperor Napoleon I broke the back of the
Habsbufg Empire, hvice defeated the Empire of all the Russias and
virtually dismembered the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Name

Address

Telephone number

D WORLD WAR il

Please number countries
in order of preference:

Greater Germany .-.,.-.

D THE NAPOLEONIC WARS

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in order of preference:

Republic of France . .......

TheSovietUnion(andtheCCP) ....
The British Empire

Great Britian

The Habsburg Monarchy

The Japanese Empire

The United States of America

The Italian Emoire . ,

The Empire of

all theRussias -

The Kingdom of Prussia

TheOttornan Empire

Other Power (e.g. Spain)

(T(o2) (1to2)
Field Commander Army

Strategic/Political Navy

Commander

The French Republic

Nationalist China

Other Power (eg. Poland)

afo2) 0to3]
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Strategic Commander , Navy

Political Leader Air Force

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in order of preference:
{1to3)

French

Austrian .
Russian .
Prussian .

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COMPUTE'S EDITORS INVITE YOU

TO LEAP INTO THE WORLD OF

IMAGINATION. ARE YOU GAME?

Dne of the joys of computer enter-
tainment is the imaginative jour-
ney it lakes you on. After playing
games for a while, you might
even begin to invent your own scenar-
ios. That's just what our editors did,
and this is the result.

Evoiution from Stepping Stone
Software

Up from the primordial ooze swims a
tiny one-celled animal, searching for
food. As our prehistoric Pac-Man gob-
bles its way toward the surface, make
sure it avoids becoming someone

else's meal. It must survive to pro-
duce future generations in this com-
puter simulation called Evolution.

Use your joystick to guide your
munching microbe through a minia-
ture smorgasbord, where every choice
affects future generations. Try to dine
selectively, but watch the clock. Food
is plentiful near the surface, but so is
the sun's dangerous radiation. Should
your character feast in the bright sun,
or should it grow at a slower rate in
deeper but safer water? Your choices
will affect its descendants.

When and if your creature

Take a Giant Leap in
Simuiations!

You are commander of

Projea

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long'rengc

cobnizc Earth's
moon. From
yourmulu-
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must csiublisfi u
tiasc. ihcn manage its
growth into a full-
ilcdged, independent
colony. With savvy (and
luck), jou mny cieaie a
Mlf-iiufficienl city on the
Moon, but nH» without
adeptly handling the myriiul
IcudcnJiip prohlemh in this
highly-charged iwhiical and
harsh physical environment,

NASA modeiing at
your command

Select and clear s it:e for Ihc l.uniu-
cobny ... build landing padh ... erect
habitat modules „. supply csNtniial
lifc^suppon services to the coloni'its ,-
sti using socio- and econometric
models from KDT InduMrics. a NASA
coniractor.

Explore and exploit ths
Moon's surface

iLxplorc and lunnr surfact Iiir new mining
siies, Piocesi the mw materials you find
into osygcn. water and hclium-3. Build
hotels far fai cais fn>m Earth. Can you make
enough pmfii to declare independence'.'

Air leak in solar

station #3!

PresNure loss ... radiation leaks .., power
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DECEMBER 1990

reaches a certain size, the game jumps

a billion years to the age of dinosaurs.
Your creature has evolved, but what it
has become depends on your actions
at the previous level. Too much red
plankton and you're a Tyrannosaurus
Rex, a nasty dinosaur — but one tee-
tering on the edge of extinction. A diet
of green amoebas, plus a sampling of
air without too much radiation, pro-
duces something warm-blooded that
crawls ashore on two legs.

On the next rung of this evolu-
tionary ladder, your creature may re-
semble early man or something else
entirely. If you've come up with three
wings and five horns, you may find
yourself in Mother Nature's garbage
can with a Do you want to play again?
message on your screen.

Qualities in a mate can also affect
change. You can probably thank your
grandparents for your big feet, blond
hair, or tendency to gain weight. But
remember, a few extra pounds might
have permitted an early ancestor to
survive a famine. When an Ice Age
threatens, do you select a mate who
looks good in a skimpy bearskin or
one who can survive the winter on a
single woolly mammoth burger?

How well you solve different
problems determines the game's out-
come. If you barely make it through
each stage, make questionable
choices, and show limited mental agil-
ity, you could end up on display in a
zoo — or become vice president. But if
you show some initiative, find food
and shelter in a reasonable time, and
use tools to good advantage, then your
creature might end up looking some-
thing like yourself — sitting at a com-
puter, playing a game.

If you solve every problem quick-
ly and intelligently and demonstrate
academic, artistic, or cultural tenden-
cies, then your creature could become
a genius — a scientist, perhaps, whose
latest invention has just destroyed the
world. Go that far and you may find
yourself at the beginning again — as a
tiny one-cell creature swimming to-
ward the light in some primordial
ooze, searching for food.
TOM NETSEL

Find the Public Bathrooms in
New Yor/r City from After Hours
Software

You and your family are vacationing
in New York City, and your youngest
needs to go to the bathroom. Your
goal: to find a public bathroom in the
shortest possible time. Ask for direc-
tions from the people you meet, but
you'll lose points and valuable time if
you mistakenly ask another tourist.
You'll also lose points when you en-
counter angry store managers who yell
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Your obstacles include 8th Ave-
nue women-of-the-night (Johnny!
Suzie! Close your eyes'.). Canal Street
cab drivers (Sure lady. I know where
thai is.), and Bower>' bums (Clean
your windshield?). The winning loca-
tions include any NYC public library,
museums on free-admission days, most
department stores, and your cousin
Fred's condo over on the East Side,

The game uses sampled sound
and digitized pictures. You'll hear the
roar of real cars as you rush to cross
the street ahead of the light. You'll see
the variety of gestures New York cab
drivers are famous for as they explain
just where you should go. Experience
the full palette of your graphics adapt-
er when you become lost backstage
during the July 4lh extravaganza at
Radio City Music Hall.

Earn additional points for spot-
ting the English-speaking cab drivers,
waiters who aren't aspiring actors, and
lawyers who turned down the Trump
divorce case.

A special version of the game
called Find the Public Bathrooms in
Homer, Alaska offers native New
Yorkers a challenge of their own.
Look for additional modules in the

74 COMPUTE DECEM

Find the Public Bathrooms series, in-
cluding Graceland on Elvis's Birthday
and London During a Plumber's
Strike.
DAVID ENGLISH

Colony: A Universal Game from
KF Software.

Science fiction that takes science and
fiction seriously — this is the kind of
game I've been waiting for.

The best of print science fiction
endeavors to deal with the universe
head-on, creating a self-consistent fic-
tional environment with inviolate in-
ternal rules. Unlike cinematic science
fiction, seriously written science fic-
tion doesn't sport spacecraft making
hard banking turns while firing all
phasers. ,A.lien civilizations are only
rarely bent on conquest, and the uni-
verse is, if not hostile, at least not be-
nign. The environments in which
those stories play themselves out are
rich but often bleak, and always
unforgiving.

We've seen little of this in inter-
active science fiction. Most interac-
tive science-fiction games involve
either interstellar wars or interstellar
trading, or some combination of the
two. Virtually all of the games are lad-

B E fi 19 9 0

en with silly names for alien races,
self-referential jokes and asides tossed
out between combat encounters, and
cleverness taking the place of thought.

It doesn't have to be this way, as
Colony shows. Like much of the best
science fiction, this game deals with
the exploration of the universe, the
discovery and colonization of new
worlds.

Colony takes place in a rigorously
Einsteinian universe. That means no
faster-than-light travel; voyaging from
solar system to solar system can take
decades or even centuries. Sound bor-
ing? Not necessarily.

Time compression eliminates
most of the tedium: One minute of
realtime equals one year of travel
time, for example. Much of the drama
in the early phases of the game stem
from precisely the amount of time
and isolation your travelers must en-
dure. Communication with the home
planet grows more lime consuming
with each moment of travel. Gradual-
ly, the ship's complement develops its
own social structure, different from
that of earth. A generation is born in
space with no memory of Terra.

There are technical and mechani-
cal problems as well. Difficulties with
the ship, scientific mysteries from the
universe outside, or sociodynamic is-
sues raised by the ship's self-contained
population — there's plenty to do be-
tween the stars. Handled properly, a
voyage of centuries flies by.

But this game doesn't end when
you reach the destination star system;
that's just the start. You must exam-
ine planets, analyze environments,
and plan settlements. Or you may
have to change plans: Close examina-
tion may show that your destination
worlds are unsuitable for coloniza-
tion. You may have to seek new
worlds among the star systems, refur-
bish the ship, and begin the journey
again.

The only way Colony really
cheats is in the exuberance with which
it tosses earthlike worlds through the
firmament. Those worlds are needed
for the game's next phase, coloniza-
tion and expansion. There are globes
to explore, filled with promise but
also promising peril to the unpre-
pared. Hundreds of scenarios are pos-
sible on each worid. Some planets
may bear intelligent lifeforms with
whom interaction is possible. Others
may harbor dread diseases — whose ef-
fects may not be evident until years of
game time have elapsed.

This is a wonderfully open-ended
game, without artificial time-length or
number-of-turns rules. If a colony
flourishes, for example, there's no rea-
son why its citizens shouldn't decide
to assemble and launch their own ex-

FOUR COMPUTER HACKERS ARE ABOUT TO

RAID YOUR DISK DRIVE.

No computer will go unscathed, as
Ultra's version of Teenage iVIutant Ninja
Turtles' storms into your disl< drive to duke
it out witfi Shredder — a maniac more
menacing than an army of mind-altered
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But if they're to survive, you must
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Along the way search for bonus
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So grabyourjoystick and nunchukus,
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The universe awaits.
KEITH FERRELL

Rev One Point Oh! from Shrink
Wrap License Software

Are you one of those folks who has to
be the first on the block with the latest
software package? Now you can relive
those anxious moments when you
first booted that new operating system
with Rev One Point Oh!, a joint ven-
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software companies.

Part game and part historical-

education software, Rei' One Point
Oh! simulates the first releases of a
number of famous software packages
and operating systems. PC users will
thrill to the experience of trying to gel
Lotus 1-2-3 to run under Windows
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friend, the flashing red Guru Medita-
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THE-UNIVERSE AT YOUR COMMAND \

Zoom in on brealhlaking
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Journey through space and i
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from 4000 B.C. to A.D.10OOO.
You can choose your location
from one of 560 cities around
the world, or you can input
yourownlat/lontoseethe
sky from anywhere on Earth.

T/ie stalus screen lets pu
choose the date, time and
location.

Discover the wonders of
the universe. Zoom in on
binary stars. Verify hisforical
observations. Watdt solar
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'With its intuitive inlerfacs,

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more than 10000 celestial ob-
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program tftaf/nfefeste (he
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The object of Rev One Point Oh!
is to try to get as much work done as
possible before you crash the system.
It's fun for the whole family. Cheer
Dad on as he attempts to create a doc-
ument in the first release of Page-
Stream. No Dad! Don't select Variable
Zoom with the mouse accelerator ac-
tive! Too late. A flashing red Game
Over box appears at the top of the
screen. Watch the kids show up their
parents by getting Flight Simulator
1 ,0 to run in the OS/2 DOS compati-
bility box.

Look for the new Gamers Edition
ofRe\' One Point Oh!, in which you
try to land your plane in the Atari ST
Falcon 1 ,0 and attempt to launch a
single attack in any of the first 16 re-
leases of Harpoon.

Re\' One Point Oh! version 1.032
costs $59.95. Bug-fix upgrades from
version 1.031 are available for only
$49.95 — if you send in pages 13-20 of
your manual and your copy-protected
boot disk.
DENNY ATKIN

Blind Date Simulator from Take a
Chance Technologies

Experience all the excitement and ner-
vousness of a real blind date as your
computer selects from thousands of
character trails to create a unique
partner for each new game. Use your
mouse or joystick to select your on-
screen personality — which may or
may not be compatible with your
blind date's personality.

The game package includes rose-
colored glasses (Gee, you look Just like
someone I used to know.) a fake beep-
er (I'm sorry, but I reaaally have to
go.) and a stiff upper lip (So, you're
into Satanic rites. That 's interesting.).

You can choose from 20 different
date scenarios, including your high
school reunion (everyone's successful
except you), an afternoon at the muse-
um (your date thinks you're a cele-
brated artist), and a Wayne Newton
concert (you wanted Mozart, your
date wanted Romanian folk music, so
you compromised).

The game provides for an option-
al modem hook up so two players can
play together as a couple. Take a
Chance Technologies is sponsoring a
RoundTable on GEnie so players can
find additional dates. You can contact
other players by leaving online mes-
sages such as Call Nancy for a good
time or You smiled at me on the IRT
to Houston Street. I was wearing the
plaid tee shirt.

Look for other exciting new sim-
ulators in the Blind Date series, in-
cluding Meet the Parents. Honeymoon
in New York City, and Quick and
Easy Guide to Divorce. b

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Easy to understand, a cinch to use,
and recognizably educational —
since the early days of educational
software, these qualities have con-
tributed to the widespread popularity
of drill-and-practice programs. Today,
they continue to be one of the most
popular kinds of applications.
The underlying premise is
straightforward. You're given a sim-
ple problem to solve and instructed to
type in the correct answer. If you get it
right, you get a reward. If you miss it,
the program shows you the right an-
swer and repeats the question. After
being endlessly and patiently tested on
a specific subject, just about everyone
finally memorizes the coiTect answers.
In many subject areas, this meth-
od is probably the most effective.
After all, if you practice your math
facts often enough, eventually you'll
remember them or at least become
faster at figuring them out.

While early versions of drill-and-
practice programs were effective, stu-
dents would often lose interest. Many
times, the rewards were a simple
"Very Good" or an animated graphic.
But who really cares if the bunny hops
across the screen or the bear reaches
the berries? Kids often don't, and
once a kid loses interest in the reward,
that's the end of the drill as well.
The programs kids don't like
don't sell well, and eventually devel-
opers started to get the hint. While
some developers completely stopped
making drill-and-practice programs,
others took a different approach —
they took a good hard look at arcade

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DECEMBER 1990

games. To
keep those
quarters falling
into the slots, arcade
games must offer a sjjecific
challenge, have multiple lev-
els to explore, and be fun to play.
These developers speculated that
drill-and-practice programs might be
more successful if they managed to
combine good educational theory
with interesting rewards. In fact, a
really well-crafted drill-and-practice
program can provide almost as much
fun as a good arcade game. And
unlike an arcade game, it can provide
excellent educational content.

Davidson & Associates' newest
version of the very popular Math
Blaster series is just such a program.
The New Math Blaster Plus offers dy-
namic graphics and sound, an exciting
new problem-solving game, and plen-
ty of what Davidson is famous for —
well-written, well-researched, and
highly effective drill.

Just watching the opening credits
is fiin. Blastemaut and Spot, his one-
wheel robotlike friend, zoom past in a
spaceship and then stop to say hello.
A main menu that looks reassuringly
like other Math Blaster menus ap-

Different levels of difficulty will keep
youngsters challenged and interested.

pears next. Tantalizing titles like
Rocket Launcher, Trash Zapper,
Number Recycler, and Math Blaster
appeal to the children who will be
using the program. Pull-down menus
along the top of the screen lei you or
your youngster easily control the pro-
gram options. There's even a record-
keeping command to turn on if you
plan to let the computer keep track of
your student's progress. A built-in edi-
tor is provided to make it easy to de-
sign your own problems if you or your
child wants to focus in on a particular
concept.

And as for the sound and graph-
ics, seeing and hearing are believing.
On just a plain MS-DOS machine, the
sound was good. On a machine
equipped with an Ad Lib or Sound
Blaster Music Card, the sound effects
will blow you away. Even the graphics
take advantage of the capabilities of
the computer you use. In VGA color,
the flying objects seem to take on a
life of their own. But enough about
the trappings. What is the program it-
self really like?

Of the four games included,
Rocket Launcher is the easiest to rec-

ognize as drill and practice. There are
two modes of play. In the Study
mode, equations such as 6 -f- 7 = 13
are flashed on the screen, and then a
second later one of the numbers in the
equation is replaced by a blank line.
Your goal is to solve the problem cor-
rectly by typing in the missing num-
ber and pressing Return. After several
problems have been solved in this
way, Blasternaut will board his space
ship and head for the stars. In the
Solve mode, equations always appear
with the blank for the missing num-
ber. Again the goal is the same: Get
enough answers right in a row to allow
Blasternaut to take off.

Trash Zapper is a cute drill-and-
practice game with a unique environ-
mental theme. Because of the presence
of Trash Aliens, the space near Blaster-
naut's planet has been polluted with
old bottles, paper garbage, and even
the rings from soft drink cans. Can
you help out? For every five problems
you solve correctly, you'll get to blow
some trash out of the sky by moving
the gun sights and firing the Zapper.
Hit the trash directly, and it vanishes.
Miss, and you'll have wasted a valu-

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able shot. When time runs out, it's
back to solving problems again. The
only way out of this cycle is to press
Esc and return to the main menu.

In another of the four games,
Math Blaster, Blastemaut has to fly up
to the ship bearing the correct answer
to the math problem displayed. To ar-
rive safely, he'll need your help dodg-
ing the space trash circling the planet.
Take too long maneuvering him
around, and the Trash Aliens will de-
scend to the planet's surface. Move
too quickly, and you risk having Blas-
temaut hit by a flying brick. As in any
good arcade game, you can gain addi-
tional lives, provided you correctly
solve several problems in a row.
Watch out, though; he'll lose those ex-
tra lives in short order if you don't
learn how to maneuver him quickly.
Every piece of trash he collides with
slows him down and costs him a life.
At higher levels, the speed at which
the Trash Aliens descend increases,
and there's more and more space
trash to deal with. Just knowing the
right answer isn't quite enough. Get-
ting Blastemaut through the space
trash unharmed before time runs out
is harder than it seems.

So much for the drill portion of
Math Blaster. What's the reward?
After five correct answers, you have a
chance to increase your point score by
helping to feed Blastemaut. He's free
to fly around the screen catching the
food that appears randomly on the
screen while he dodges the rocks and
bricks floating through space. Every-
thing he catches adds points to the to-
tal score. Interestingly, you receive
extra points for choosing good things
to eat. It's nice to know that fish and
carrots count for more than ice cream
sundaes, hamburgers, and French
fries. Eventually, dinnertime is over,
and then it's back to solving prob-
lems. When you've exhausted all of
Biasternaut's extra lives, the game
ends. Is your total point score good
enough to put you in the hall of fame?
If not, try again. If you make it, don't
rest on your laurels; do it again!

Number Recycler isn't just good
drill and practice; it's an excellent
problem-solving game. At first, 1 8
numbers fill a grid separated by +
and = signs. Your task is to create
five different equations by sliding the
numbers down a chute one at a time.
If you slide down more than one
number, the first ones will be zapped
and put out of play. Planning ahead is
essential if you plan to work your way
past the fifth level. To make the game
a real challenge, try using either a +

or — in the equations. You get points
for every correct solution, and you get
plenty of practice making bad deci-
sions before learning how to predict
just which equations work out the
best in the long run.

What shoves the New Math
Blaster Plus up the ladder from good
to excellent is the variety of possible
levels and subject areas. This isn't a
program your youngsters will outgrow

Avoid orbiting paper and other trash.

Choose from four different games.

Interesting graphics make learning fun.

quickly. First and second graders will
be challenged by the addition and sub-
traction problems, third and fourth
graders will find the multiplication
and division problems hard to do
quickly, and fifth and sixth graders
can use the program to review and
strengthen their arithmetic skills, even
while they practice solving problems
with percents. And their brothers and
sisters in high school will be chal-
lenged by the upper levels in Number
Recycler.

Need to keep records of your

youngsters' achievements? The handy
recordkeeping routines will automati-
cally track iheir progress. Each time a
child solves a reasonable number of
problems correctly, an entry goes into
the record, and the program offers to
print a reward certificate. These can
provide students with a permanent
memento of their achievements with
the New Math Blaster Plus.

Potentially very important to the
teachers or tutors who use this pack-
age is a handy test-printing routine.
You can print out problems similar to
those on the screen and let children
work on them at home or as a timed
review. These can be handy if you
plan to quiz your child yourself and
want a paper record of the results.

I had only a few problems with
this generally excellent program. The
older students found Rocket Launch-
er pretty boring. Even the second
game could be quite a bit better if a
scorekeeping mechanism were added
along with a hall of fame. Speaking of
halls of fame, it would be very nice if
the names and scores on the list could
be erased. That way children wouldn't
have to compete with their best scores
on lower levels each time they at-
tempted a new level or a new subject
group. And the lack of a speed control
in the option menu meant that faster
computers often played quicker than
children could think. This became a
problem only on the upf»er levels of
Math Blaster, but it did prove rather
daunting to the children who got that
far only to be shot down completely.

If you're looking for a solid edu-
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practice in arithmetic for your chil-
dren, look no further. With the cre-
ative enhancement of the drill-and-
practice motif, I can solidly
recommend the New Math Blaster
Plus. It's colorful, it's effective, and
it's fun!

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morrow. Snow from October to
.A.pril? You bet. That's the weath-
er where I grew up. Brutal storms that
swept across the prairie, rain that was
rarely where it needed to be when it
needed to be there — it was a farmer's
nightmare and not much better for a
city dweller.

I follow the weather. We all do.
Weather's right up there next to sports
as part of the fabric of .A.merican con-
versation. It's no surprise, then, that
there are so many ways to find out
what the weather's going to be like:
TV, radio, colorful maps in news-
papers, or just watching the sky for
clouds and smelling the air for rain.

You can do better than that. Put
that PC of yours to work as a personal
meteorologist, crunching numbers
and drawing graphics. All you lack is
the raw data — the weather observa-
tions and recordings. No, you don't
have to check a rain gauge every hour
or stare at a thermometer all day long.
The National Weather Service (NWS)
already does an excellent job of gath-
ering weather data. You just need to
get your hands on it.

That's where two programs —
Accu- Weather Forecaster and
WeatherBrief— come in. These pack-
ages put you in touch with two of the
largest commercial weather infor-
mation databases in the country,
Accu- Weather and WeatherBank,
both of which get their basic infor-
mation from the NWS. Connected to
one of these databases via modem
and telephone line, your computer
can channel an enormous amount of
weather info into its hard disk and
onto its screen.

It's one of the most innovative
uses of a home computer.

Weather on the Way

Accu- Weather Forecaster and
WeatherBriefare remarkably similar
in their operation. Both programs let
you select the weather information
you want before you call the data-
base— that cuts down on connect time
and thus cuts costs (the .Accu- Weather
and WeatherBank databases charge
connect time by the minute). Once
you've selected the information, each
program automatically dials its data-
base, pulls down the information you
requested, then breaks the connection.
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and specialty maps that look amazing-
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newscasts.

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ginning weather enthusiasts.

Before dialing the WeatherBank
database, you use WeatherBrief\ sim-
ple menu system to select from the
dozens of available information
choices. WealherBriefXtXs you cluster
those requests in up to eight different
groups and save them for later use. I
created several of these groups — one
for local area weather information,
another for national weather forecasts,

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and a third for world weather.

These information choices make
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store. Here are just some of the things
you can ask WeatherBriefxo retrieve
for you: current conditions for any
major NWS reporting station, 6- and
10-day forecasts by state or city, radar
maps of any of six regions, cloud-
cover maps, precipitation forecast
maps, Ughtning-strike maps, satellite
pictures of the United States, even
custom-created TV-like graphics that
show national 30-day temperature
and precipitation forecasts.

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selections, WeatherBrief dials and logs
on to WeatherBank; then it pulis
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onUne depends on the number of
items and the complexity of any
graphics you've selected. Simple data
requests are the fastest, taking less
than two minutes. Satellite pictures
and custom graphics can make your
online time jump dramatically; in one
test session, WeatherBriefv/as on the
line for over 1 7 minutes. It's easy to
spend five or six dollars in a single
session if you're downloading a lot of
graphics or pictures.

But the wait (and maybe even the
money) are worth it. Although the

simpler items — current conditions,
perhaps — are in text form, Weather-
Briefs maps are dazzling on an EGA
or a VGA monitor. Satellite pictures
and custom graphics hke the drought
index I downloaded are even more
impressive; you won't mistake them
for what you see on TV, but they're
close.

I thought the text information
was the most valuable, though I was
tempted by all the color maps and
fancy graphics. It was fascinating to
see complete weather reports, includ-
ing current temperatures, humidity
levels, and tomorrow's forecast highs
and lows — all from cities across the
country. I especially liked tracking a
hurricane's progress up the Atlantic
seaboard. There's a certain satisfac-
tion in knowing that your PC can ac-
cess weather forecasts, warnings, and
observations only moments after
they've been posted by the NWS. Not
even the Weather Channel is faster.

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Accu- Weather Forecaster does much
more than simply download infor-
mation and present it to you. It gath-
ers raw data from the Accu-Weather
database ahd then creates a variety of
maps, charts, pictures, and lists to vis-

ually describe the weather.

With the exception of its excel-
lent TV graphics Ubrary, Accu-Weather
Forecaster doesn't ask for specific
information requests. Instead, you
identify two NWS stations — the one
nearest to you and another you'd like
information from — and decide how
many major stations around the coun-
try will be polled by Forecaster. The
program does all the rest.

Logging on to the Accu-Weather
database and culling its data are han-
dled automatically once you've given
the program a telephone number, ac-
count name, and password. One nice
touch is that Accu- Weather Forecaster
estimates your onHne lime before you
call.

As long as you stick to requesting
data, not graphics, Forecaster quickly
grabs the last 24 hours' worth of ob-
servations from your two primary sta-
tions, the last hour from all stations
within a specified area, and the last
hour from 100 major stations around
the country. You'll be on the line an
average of four to five minutes. Off-
line, you can view that data any num-
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Create a chart showing the rise
and fall of temperature, precipitation,
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if your weather information needs are
limited, WeatherBrief and Accu-Weather
Forecaster may be too much of a good
thing. Fortunately, your computer can
tap other electronic resources to tell you
what it's going to be like outside.

CompuServe, the telecommunica-
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information and news among its hun-
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CompuServe also has three maps you
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Prodigy, another major player in
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now has three national weather maps,
one showing weather for the current
day, another showing fronts and iso-
bars for the current day, and the third
showing vreather for the next day. Sev-
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been added. City weather reports have
been expanded to include temperature
In Fahrenheit and Centigrade, winds, air

quality, a three-day forecast, and the
times of sunrise and sunset. The num-
ber of cities has been expanded to 235
domesfc and 100 frequent international
travel destinations. In the major metro-
politan areas, there are reports for the
cities in the region. And the outdoor re-
ports have been expanded to include
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COMPUTE 87

PATHWAYS

STEVEN

A N Z O V I N

Sixty-five million years ago, the
earth was utterly dominated by
huge, powerful, and specialized
reptiles. Underfoot scurried
small furry beasts, not awesome but
agile and adaptable. A short time later
(geologically speaking), the dinosaurs
were gone, and we mammals had the
place to ourselves. A similar evolu-
tionary trend may be taking place
right now in the digital world as palm-
top computers — those small, portable
machines also known as handiields or
personal organizers — challenge lap-
tops by evolving capabilities only
desktop PCs had a year or two ago.

Palmtops differ from laptops in
that they're smaller, less powerful, and
can run only a limited number of ap-
plications. While most laptops aim to
give you as much of the functionality
of a desktop machine as possible, with
portability as a bonus, palmtops are
definitely minimaUst. The typical
palmtop looks like a glorified calcula-
tor and weighs less than a pound. It
has a tiny LCD screen that shows no
more than eight lines of 40 characters,
offers a QWERTY or an ABC key-
board with keys so cramped that only
a lemur could touch-type, and comes
standard with 64K of RAM. You
can't run standard PC applications on
most palmtops; you're limited to ap-
plications specially created for them.

But what the current crop of ,
palmtops do, they do well. Most
often, these handy machines keep
schedules and address books for execs
on the go. Enter your daily or weekly
schedule into one of the calendar pro-
grams that come standard with nearly
all palmtops, and the machine will
beep you shortly before each appoint-
ment. You can then check the screen
for time, place, and notes as you get
on your way — a priceless aid for all of
us who are chronically late, lost, and
unprepared. The integral address
book keeps thousands of names and
numbers more accessibly than in a pa-
per Filofax or Day-Timer. Palmtops
include calculator and world-clock
functions as well.

All this might not be enough to

tempt you to shell out as much as
$400 for a palmtop and accessories,
but they can do even more. Most
palmtops offer additional software on
slide-in IC cards. You can get lan-
guage translators, dictionaries and
thesauruses for law and medicine,
spreadsheet and expense-account pro-
grams, travel planners, wine advisors,
and even Teiris.

Two top-of-the-line models cur-
rently duking it out in the savagely
Darwinian palmtop market are the
Sharp Wizard OZ-7200 (Sharp Elec-
tronics, Sharp Plaza, Mahwah, New
Jersey 07430; 201-529-8200; J300) and
the Casio B.O.S.S. SF-9000 (Casio, 570
Mt, Pleasant Avenue, Dover, New Jer-
sey 07801; 201-361-5400; $260).

Though usefiil, each has design flaws.
The Wizard has a smaller 8-line X 1 6-
character display, a hard-to-use ABC
keyboard, and a maximum 32K of ad-
ditional RAM (with an optional IC
card). The B.O.S.S. (Business Organiz-
er Scheduling System) accepts up to
64K of additional RAM and has a big-
ger 6-line X 32-character display and a
QWERTY keyboard, but the keys are
flat, not raised. Both models offer a
range of software, but the IC cards are
expensive, ranging from $50 to Si 80.

Under intense selection pressure,
each company is developing new. im-

proved palmtops. The latest models
are the Sharp Wizard OZ-8000 and
the Casio B.O.S.S. SF-9500. Both
should be available by the time you
read this. Since the new Wizard will
sport a larger display and QWERTY
keyboard like the B.O.S.S.'s, and since
the new B.O.S.S. has raised keys for
easier typing, it may be difficult to
choose between the machines them-
selves— an interesting example of
convergent evolution. Instead, you'll
want to make sure that you can get the
external applications you need for
your work. Miniaturized versions of
some popular PC applications should
be appearing by the end of this year.

When it comes to palmtops and
desktops, the dinosaurs-vs.-mammals
analogy at the beginning of this col-
umn isn't quite right. The big dinos
were never really threatened by their
ftirr>- cousins; it was the other way
around — protorats and premonkeys
made good eating for the smaller sorts
of saurians. But desktops and palm-
tops have a symbiotic, rather than
predator-prey, relationship. The palm-
top manufacturers, realizing that most
buyers also use a desktop computer,
try to make it easy to move data back
and forth between machines. Both the
Wizard and the B.O.S.S. can interface
with PCs and Macs and transfer data
to and from programs like Lotus and
HyperCard (The simplest way to print
out information from a palmtop is to
move it to your PC first.)

Given their limited abilities,
palmtops are no threat to the domi-
nance of desktop PCs — yet. But lap-
tops are a different story. Why lug
around a 6-plus-pound laptop to do
what a half-pound palmtop can do for
you, at a sixth of the price? Within a
year or two you'll see palmtops with
voice annotation (voice-recorded
messages) and text-to-speech capabili-
ty, crisper displays, touchscreens that
recognize your handwriting, and some
type of integrated circuit-based mass
storage. So as palmtops get more pow-
erful, they may mean extinction for
some species of laptops — it's a simple
matter ofsurvivalofthe smallest. Q

SB COMPUTE

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PC VIEW

C L f F T O N

KARNES

Finally, Windows 3.0 is here, and
it's made a big splash. Everyone
agrees that its sculpted buttons
and full-color icons are beautiful,
but some argue that Microsoft has
pushed the product too hard, hyped it
too much, and oversold it in general.
Windows 3.0 certainly has its de-
tractors, but its release is quickly
emerging as the most important event
since the introduction of MS-DOS it-
self. Interestingly, Windows finds it-
self in nearly the same situation DOS
was in after its introduction.

When the first version of DOS
hit the streets, a lot of people scoffed
at it. After all, there was already a
mature, well-supported operating sys-
tem widely available: CP/M. Who
needed another entry to confijse the
marketplace?

There was no software for MS-
DOS, everyone claimed, and the sys-
tem didn't support a hard disk (many
CP/M systems had hard disks at the
time). And the floppy
disks didn't hold
enough data — a measly
1 60K compared with
CP/M's 360K or more.
Although MS-DOS was
touted as a 1 6-bit won-
der, the PC's standard
configuration used just
64 K — no more RAM
than the 8-bit 8080- and
Z80-based CP/M
computers.

As more software
appeared for the PC, in-
dustry pundits began to
say that perhaps MS-
DOS would coexist with
CP/M. And it did just
that — for a while.

But as we all know,
DOS completely re-
placed CP/M. Why? It's
simple: Although the
first MS-DOS machines
were really no better
than their CP/M coun-
terparts, MS-DOS and
its PC engine had more
potential. True, IBM's

early DOS computers came with just
64K, but they could address much
more. When RAM prices came down,
640K soon became the standard. Fast,
large hard disks also became plentiful.
These two factors — increased RAM
and fast, large hard disks — ensured
the eventual success of MS-DOS.

The situation between Windows
and DOS parallels that ten-year-old
duel between DOS and CP/M. Win-
dows is the new kid on the block, and
it faces many of the criticisms that
met DOS at its introduction. But
Windows has ff^eatev potential — espe-
cially when matched with the right
hardware.

When you run Windows in real
mode on an 8088- or 8086-based PC,
DOS leaves it at the gate. Windows is
clunky and impossibly slow.

But things start to change with a
286 computer. In standard mode, AT-
class machines sporting a megabyte or
more of RAM can multitask Windows

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applications and single-task most
DOS programs. Windows is still a lit-
tle sluggish, but with it, you can really
use your extended memory to run ap-
plications. The first time you get a
message that says something like
2,7 14K free, you'll catch a gUmpse of
the new Life Windows can breathe into
your computer.

On 286 machines, Windows and
DOS run neck-and-neck, but deciding
between the two is easy. If you run a
lot of Windows appUcations, Win-
dows clearly gets the nod. If you spend
most of your time tooling around in
DOS, Windows won't offer you much.
On a 386, it's a different story. In
its 386 incarnation, Windows 3.0 can
mullilask Windows appUcations and
DOS applications. It can even multi-
task DOS applications in windows.
And it uses not only extended memo-
ry, but also virtual memory (hard disk
space configured as memory). When
you run Windows 3.0 and get a
message that says
14,4 12K free, you'll feel
some of 3.0's power on
a 386. With 386 hard-
ware, Windows 3,0 is
recommended even if
you don't use a single
Windows application.

So, what about the
future of DOS and Win-
dows? Or perhaps it
would be better to ask
about DOS versus Win-
dows. Like the CP/M-
DOS battle, it all
depends on hardware.
As the PC's hardware
improved and became
less expensive, the pow-
er of DOS led people
away from CF/M. The
same thing is going to
happen with Windows.
As 386 hardware be-
comes more common,
so will Windows. With
Windows, just like with
DOS ten years ago, it's
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Epson is entering the image-process-
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hne of the image, separating the col-
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and colored filters.

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users can then store, edit, and re-
trieve in the PC environment.

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Epson-authorized resellers. The
manufacturer's suggested retail price
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the PC version.

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produces output with 600 X 300 dpi resolution. This means the new
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Computer monitors, like most electronic devices, generate a wide
range of electromagnetic fields. Research into potential health hazards
from exposure to magnetic fields started over a decade ago, with stud-
ies focusing on electric power lines. Recently, there has been concern
raised about the possible harmful effects of long-term exposure to
very-low-frequency (VLF) and extra-low-frequency (ELF) emissions
generated by computer monitors. Fortunately, there are already some
alternatives to the standard computer monitors normally available in
the U.S., monitors that conform to more stringent standards for VLF
emissions.

Sigma Designs, for example, now sells IBM-compatible and Mac-
intosh monitors that meet the low VLF emission standards set by the
Swedish government. Sigma is developing monitor technology that
will meet new standards for ELF emissions that are expected to be set
by Sweden next year.

Sweden has received international attention as the most progres-
sive country in regulating magnetic field emissions. Sigma says it will
deliver monochrome and gray-scale monitors with both low VLF and
low ELF technology in the first quarter of 1 99 1 .

Cornerstone Technology is another monitor manufacturer that's
already offering low-radiation displays.

In both cases, the low-radiation option adds $ 150-$200 to the reg-
ular suggested retail price of the offered displays.

Sigma Designs, 46501 Landing Pkwy., Fremont, CA 94538; Cor-
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Parting
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Astronauts aboard NASA space
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high-resolution video printer.

With it, NASA Houston pro-
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weather maps with data from geo-
stationary satellites. Houston trans-
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astronauts as they prepare to pho-
tograph environmentally sensitive
areas. Each photo session has only
a narrow window of opportunity,
and the satellite-generated weather
maps let astronauts preview the
photographic conditions they will
encounter before they encounter
them.

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lected because it can produce
weather maps using a 64-tone gray
scale. NASA feeds the printer out-
put into a special fax machine for
transmission to the shuttle. The VP-
3500 video printer is a 300-dpi ther-
mal printer that can reproduce a
video image of up to 1280 X 1240
pixel resolution. It retails for $6,700.

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News & Notes by Alan R. Bechtold, editor
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READERS

About two years ago I purchased an
IBM Model 30. Recently, I bought a
5'/i-inch drive to go with it. Many pro-
grams that come on S'A-inch disks de-
mand to be placed in drive A, which is
my 3'/i-inch drive. What can I do
about this situation?

MADHli POCHA
MANCHESTER. MO

The simple solution is to issue the
DOS command ASSIGN A B. This
command will make your computer
think that drive B is drive A. That
way, you can install your program
or run it in your S'A-inch drive.
When you've finished, either reset
the computer or issue the DOS com-
mand ASSIGN, which returns
things to normal

The complicated, permanent
solution only works if you're using
an internal S'A-inch drive. Reverse
the position of the drives with re-
spect to the flat data cable that
serves the drives. Although this is a
simple operation, if you're slightly
nervous about going into the in-
nards of the computer, you'd be wis-
er 10 let a qualified service
technician make the switch for you.

Most people would be satisfied
just making the software switch
with the ASSIGN command. You
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file to make the change automatic.
If you do this, include the comple-
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which will allow you to use your 3'A-
inch drive as drive B.

One word of caution on using
this command: Some commercial
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Therefore the ASSIGN command
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Keeping It Clean

I am concerned about the care and
maintenance of my hardware, particu-
larly the heads on my disk drives.
Could you give me some general rule

of thumb for cleaning the disk drive
heads and maintaining other compo-
nents of the hardware?

HCNRVZIMOCH
CHUACia [L

How often or how rigorously you
should clean your hardware is di-
rectly related to the dirtiness of the
immediate environment. If you
smoke, live in a dusty home or an
area of heavy pollution, or own an
ultrasonic humidifier, you should
clean your computer often with a
vacuum cleaner or compressed air
and keep your keyboard covered
with a thin plastic cover.

If you're in a truly nasty situa-
tion, such as on a factory floor or in
a trailer at a construction site, you
should consider purchasing a hard-
ened or ruggedizedcompwfer. These
computers are designed to with-
stand shocks. Some use refrigera-
tion or special filtering for cooling
or eliminating dust- or chemical-
laden outside air.

If your computer is in an aver-
age office or home environment,
you should clean it about once a
month or quarter. Failure to do so
may result in a build-up of dust on
the cooling vents and internal com-
ponents. All electronic devices gen-
erate heat, and some are very
intolerant of high temperatures.

Begin by backing up and opti-
mizing your hard disk. Then unplug
the computer, open the computer
case, discharge any static in your
body by touching the power supply
housing, and blow out all the dust
with compressed air. Remember
that dust is also harmful to you, so
wear goggles and a mask to protect
your e}'es and lungs. When all the
dust has been blown out, close the
case and replace any screws that
you removed.

If your floppy drive has been
giving you problems, run a disk-
head cleaner to clean the dust and
debris that may have accumulated
on the disk drive heads.

No matter what the manufac-

turers claim, all head cleaners are at
least a little bit abrasive, so experts
recommend only using a head clean-
er when your drives are acting up.

Use an antistatic wipe to clean
the monitor screen (some experts
recommend dryer sheets or a weak
solution of fabric softener and wa-
ter— about three parts water to one
part fabric softener). Don't use a
commercial window cleaner on
your screen. Some monitors have an
outside coating to protect the glass
and prevent glare. A glass cleaner
can remove or damage this protec-
tive coating.

One computer writer has been
known to clean his keyboard by car-
rying it into the shower with him,
but for obvious reasons we can 't rec-
ommend that. Instead, purchase a
portable vacuum cleaner like the
Mini-Vac (from The GiflHorse, De-
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and vacuum the keys periodically,
or blow the spaces between the keys
with compressed air.

Cotton swabs and isopropyl
fnol rubbing) alcohol are good for
cleaning tight corners. Here's a hint
worthy ofHehise: Post-It notes can
be used to remove things that fall in
crevices. Dust and hair stick to the
adhesive.

Most of the exterior of your
computer can be cleaned with a
mild solution of soap and water (or
fabric softener and water in the pro-
portions listed earlier).

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Sn the natural environment, important things lie
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U memory is information that most users never see:
the DOS environment. The environment is a special
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Get SET

The basic command for viewing and
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is SET. To see what is currentiy con-
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SET

at any DOS prompt and then press
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so it operates no matter what disk or
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When you give this command by itself, you'll
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different, depending on how your sys-
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Here's a look at each line.

COMSPEC— Your Way Home

The COMSPEC line tells DOS where
to find a copy ofCOMMAND.COM,
the program that interprets everything
you type at the DOS prompt. When
you boot up, whether from a floppy
disk or from your hard disk, DOS
automatically includes this line in the
environment. It's very important for
the system to know where to find
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can use the memory space normally
taken up by COMMAND.COM.
When you exit a program, the PC re-
loads COMMAND.COM from the lo-
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Floppy disk users are familiar
with this DOS error message:

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and strike any key when ready

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than its usual place. Suppose you
want DOS to find COMMAND.COM
on drive B. You might want to do this
if the program you're running from
drive A is too big to allow you to keep
COMMAND. COM there, too. You
could copy C0MMAND.COM to an-
other floppy, insert it in drive B, and
then give this command before run-
ning your program:

SETCOMSPEC^B: \ C0MMAND.COM

Now, when you exit the program,
DOS will look for C0MMAND.COM
on drive B instead of drive A. Hard
disk users can do the same thing, plac-
ing C0MMAND.COM in a directory'
other than the root directory of drive C

PATH Through the Woods

The second line in the example above
displays the DOS PATH. Most hard
disk users are familiar with the PATH
command. It allows DOS to find and
run COM, EXE, and BAT files from
any directory, as long as the program
is located in one of the directories
named in the PATH statement.

You would ordinarily include a
PATH statement in your AUTO-
EXEC. BAT file. While hard disk
users make good use of this statement,
floppy users can also benefit from
adding a path statement to their
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You don't
need the SET command to create or
change your PATH, The line below
will allow floppy disk users to run pro-
grams on either drive A or B, regard-
less of what the prompt says.

PATH°A:\;B:\

For more information on the
PATH command and its syntax, con-
sult your DOS manual.

PROMPT Input

Next in line is the PROMPT com-
mand. It's amazing how many users
skip this valuable command. In the
example above, the PROMPT line

looks like this:

PROMPT=SPSG

That line displays a DOS prompt
that shows the current directory. It's a
big help in finding your way around
your PC. If you always see a prompt
that only shows the currently logged
drive and a greater-than sign (like
C>), it's time to fix up your prompt.

Where Is the Environment?

Rnding the exact location of your DOS
environment can be difficult. That's be-
cause it keeps moving. Each time a pro-
gram is executed, it gets a copy of the
master environment. But since DOS
and other programs need to be able to
find this elusive area of memory, each
program contains a pointer to its own
private environment, and this pointer is
alvrays located at the same spot in
memory — offset 2C hexadecimal in the
current segment.

This offset is in an area called the
PSP, or Program Segment Prefix. The
PSP contains a lot of useful information,
but we're only concerned with the envi-
ronment here.

To see your DOS environment in
memory, you'll need to use the DOS ex-
ternal command, DEBUG. Simply type

DEBUG

at the DOS prompt

Now, at the - prompt, enter D 2C.
This tells DEBUG to display the memory
at address 2C (the hexadecimal num-
bering system is assumed). You'll see
something like this;

23A4:0020 A31F4E01

The first two values, A3 and 1 F on this
PC, form the address of the cunrent en-
vironment, but, for technical reasons,
DOS stores address bytes in reverse
order, so the real address is 1 FAS.
Since this is the address of a segment,
to see its contents you'd type

D 1FA3:0

at the DOS prompt (be sure to substi-
tute your computer's values for the
ones above). You'll see the text of your
environment, beginning with your COM-
SPEC statement. To quit DEBUG, type
Q at the - prompt.

To verify that your PC's environ-
ment moves around, type COMMAND
at the DOS prompt. This will invoke an-
other command interpreter and another
environment. Now load DEBUG and
type D 20 again. This time you'll get dif-
ferent addresses. To verify that these
point to the environment, reverse them
and enter the D command. You'll see
the same environment headed again by
your COMSPEC command. To remove
the extra COMMAND.COM, type EXIT
at the DOS prompt.

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Just give the command PROMPT=
SP$G at any DOS prompt. This com-
mand will cause your prompt to dis-
play the complete path of the current
directory, which can be very useful in
a complex directory structure. Hard
disk users will benefit most from this
command. You can include the com-
mand in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
to automate the process.

There's even more to the
PROMPT command. You can add
other features and even your own text.
Each feature is preceded by a dollar
sign. Try these:

SD

Current Date

ST

Current Time

SG

The greater-than symbol (>)

sv

Your DOS version

S— (underscore) Moves to the next line

You can even include your own text
just by typing in the words you want.
For example, type this command on
one line at the DOS prompt:

PROMPT = Hello! It's $T on SD$_ You're using
DOS $VS_in the SP directory. Give a command:

Using ANSI, SYS, you can even
add colors and more to your prompt.
For more information on these extra
features, see the PROMPT and AN-
SI.SYS entries in your DOS manual
or read the article "FYI: ANSI.SYS"
in the May 1 990 issue of COM-
PUTEVs PC Magazine.

Customizing with SET

The fourth line in the sample environ-
ment above, which reads D.ATA=C:

\ DATA, won't appear the first time
you run the SET command. It's an ex-
ample of information you place into
the environment for your own use.

You already know how the
PATH command works: It lets DOS
find programs and batch files on disks
and directories other than the one to
which you are currently logged. If only
your programs could use PATH to
find their data files! DOS versions 3.3
and later include the helpfiil AP-
PEND command, but many programs
offer their own tools for locating data
files or for other information.

By including a variable in the en-
vironment area, you can often tell a
program where to look for its data or
for information telling it how you
want it to run.

WordPerfect is a good example of
this. It uses a number of special start-
up options. For example, if you start

WordPerfect 5. 1 with the command

WP /d-C; \TEMP /m-DOITNOW

the program will send all its tempo-
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and immediately run the macro
named DOITNOW, That's handy.
but it's a lot of work to type.

There's a shortcut, though. Word-
Perfect checks the DOS environment
each time it runs. By including an en-
vironment variable containing the
information it needs, you can teil
WordPerfect what to do without all
that typing. The SET command is the
key. Here's what you'd use to dupli-
cate the command above;

SETWP=/d-C: MEMP /ra-DOITNOW

Now, just by giving the com-
mand WP, you can provide the same
information you laboriously typed out
before. If you include this SET com-
mand in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
WordPerfect will always start just the
way you want.

Many other programs have simi-
lar capabilities. To check on the soft-
ware you use, try looking in the index
of the manual for the words environ-
ment and SET. Each program uses en-
vironment variables in a different
way. Some, like WordPerfect, use
them to help users cut down on com-
plex command line switches, while
others use the environment to find
data files. In either case, a little study
can save keystrokes, cut down on all
the things you have to remember, and
increase your productivity.

The SET command can create an
environment variable, but it can also
remove one. To clear a variable, give
the command this way:

SET VARIABLE"

By naming the variable, but not
adding a value to it, you tell DOS to
delete the variable from the environ-
ment. Don't place any spaces around
the equal sign.

Batch File Environmentalism

There's one more way to make the
DOS environment work for you.
Many users find that batch files are an
indispensable part of their daily com-
puting. What most people don't know
is that you can supercharge your batch
files by letting them get information
from your DOS environment.

As we've seen, environment vari-
ables have two parts. First comes the
variable name, then an equal sign, fol-
lowed by the data in the variable.
Batch files can access the data by
using the variable name. For example,
if you use a modem to download files
from bulletin boards, you've discov-
ered that they're usually stored as ar-
chives containing several files. It's
often convenient, especially with
shareware programs, to examine the
documentation before extracting all

of the files. README, READ.ME,
README.DOC, and MANUAL
.DOC are common names for
documentation.

Here's a way to extract all the
documentation files from a whole Hst
of ZIP files, sending them all to a spe-
cial directory on your hard disk, ready
to read. The batch file uses PKUNZIP
to do the extracting.

Before running this batch file,
however, you must use the SET com-
mand to establish an environment
variable. Let's call our variable UN-
ZIP. Here's the command:

SET UNZIP= READ*.* *.DOC *.TXT

Now you can use the variable
UNZIP in a batch file to represent all
those wildcard characters. You won't
ever have to type them again. Before
showing you the batch file, though,
you need to know some other infor-
mation. For this example, let's assume
that the program PKUNZIREXE is
in the current directory or in the
PATH. All the ZIP files are stored in
the directory C: \ZIPS, and we'll send
the documents to the directory
C: \TEMP. You can substitute your
own information. Here's the batch
file, called UNZIPIT.BAT:

PKUNZIP C: \ ZIPS S *.ZIP %UNZIP%
C: \TEMP

It's just one line, but it has enor-
mous power. Just give the command
UNZIPIT and the batch file will cause
PKUNZIP to extract every documen-
tation file from a whole list of
ZIPPED files and send them to your
temporary directory for reading.

The key here is the use of percent
signs { % ) on both sides of the envi-
ronment variable name. When DOS
sees that, it checks the environment

for the variable UNZIP and then
automatically inserts everything on
the other side of the equal sign as the
contents of that variable.

Now, suppose that you wanted to
switch to extracting all the EXE files
from your list of ZIP files. You could
write another batch file, but there's a
better way. Just give this command:

SETUNZ1P=*.EXE

Now, instead of extracting docu-
mentation, your UNZIPIT.BAT file
will extract only the EXE files, still
sending them to the C: \TEMP direc-
torj'. If you want all files extracted,
use the SET UNZP=*.* command.

This is a simple example, but it's
easy to see how you can use environ-
ment variables to enhance the power
of many of your batch files. Remem-
ber, you can establish the variable
automatically at boot time by includ-
ing the SET command line in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

Sizing Up the Environment

If all this sounds interesting and
you're ready to start typing
PROMPT, PATH, and SET com-
mands right and left, hold on a sec-
ond. DOS allows only limited room
for the environment. In DOS versions
2.0-3.2, only 128 bytes are allowed.
Later versions of DOS let you use 160
bytes. That's the equivalent of about
two lines of text on your screen.

Keep adding to your environ-
ment with long PATH and PROMPT
statements, or use too many environ-
ment variables, and DOS will com-
plain with this message:

Out of environment space

This space limitation is pretty se-
vere, but there's a way around it. The

SET and PflOMPT at a Glance

SET

The SET command sets an environment variable name. Tbis command has several forms.

SET By itself displays the current environment.

SET rrame = Deletes the variable name.

SET name = value Places value in the variable name.

PROMPT

The PROMPT command sets the DOS prompt. The most common setting Is SP$G, which
displays the current path followed by a greater-lhan ( > ) sign. Here's a complete list of
PROMPT options:

SB

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Current path

$D

Current date

SO

Equal sign ( = )

$E

Esc character

$T

Current time

$G

Greater-than sign

SV

DOS version

$H

Backspace

$_

Enter

$L

Less-than sign

$s

Dollar sign

$N

Default drive

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sion, and there are two completely dif-
ferent methods.

For DOS versions 2.1-3.0, the
only way to increase the size of the en-
vironment is to load a second copy of
C0MMAND.COM, telling the sec-
ond copy that you want a larger envi-
ronment space. Here's the command,
which you should give from the direc-
tory containing COMM.A.ND.COM:

COMMAND /E:iiif/P

Replace size with your desired
environment size, in bytes. You can
use as many as 32,768 bytes, but 512
or 1024 is usually enough. If you're
using DOS 2. 1 , you may see an error
message about a search path not being
found, but you can ignore it.

This method works, but it has a
disadvantage: Since it loads a second
copy ofCOMMAND.COM, you'll lose
about 20K of memory when you use
it. You can avoid this memorj' loss if
you use DOS version 3. 1 or later.

With these later versions, you can
use the SHELL statement in your
CONFIG.SYS file to increase your en-
vironment space when you boot up,
without losing memory. To do this,
include the following line as the first
line in your CONnG.SYS file:

SHELL =C: \ C0MMAND.COM C: \

/P/E:i;:e

Substitute another drive and
path, if your copy of COMMAND.
COM is in another location. The sec-
ond C: \ tells DOS where to set the
COMSPEC variable.

The /P entry is essential. If you
leave it out, the system will lock up
and you'll have to reboot from a
floppy disk.

Finally, specify the size for your
environment. With DOS 3.2 or high-
er, give the size in bytes, up to 32,767
bytes. DOS 3.1 is different, requiring
the size to be in multiples of 1 6, and is
limited to 992 bjles. For version 3. 1
you must specify the size between i 1
(176 bytes) and 62 (992 bytes). That's
usually enough, but if you need more
than 992 b>les, use the method de-
scribed above for earlier versions.

BASIC and the Environment

If vou program in anv variety of
B.ASIC, from the lowly BASICA/
GW-BASIC interpreter to the Quick-
BASIC 4.5 compiler, you can read or
change any part of the DOS environ-
ment from within your own pro-
grams. Two simple BASIC commands
handle all of the work.

First, you may want to set a new

environment variable from within a
program. One good reason to do this
is to tell your program where its data
files are located. To do this, you use
the ENVIRON statement. Here's an
example. Suppose you want to let
your program know that all its files
are in the directory C: \ B.ASIC \ . To
add this to the environment, use a line
like this in your program:

ENVIRON "D.\TA=C: \ BASIC \"

It's just like using the SET com-
mand from the DOS prompt, as de-
scribed eariier in this article. Don't
use any spaces around the equal sign.

Similariy. you can set the PATH,
COMSPEC, PROMPT, or any other
valid environment string with the EN-
VIRON statement. To set a new

Using EnvEd to Alter
Your DOS Environment

While the SET command, described
above, is one way to alter the data in the
DOS environment area, it's inconve-
nient at times. Adding a directory to
your PATH statement, for example,
means typing the entire path from start
to finish.

On this issue's disk, you'll find
EnvEd (for Environment Editor), a pro-
gram written by Jeff Bowles. It lets you
edit your DOS environment, using the
familiar keystrokes you use with your
word processor. You can use EnvEd to
insert, delete, or alter any of the data in
the environment. It's especially useful
for changing your f=ATH statement with-
out retyping the whole thing.

EnvEd uses the same commands
as WordStar, but you don't have to be a
WordStar guru to use it. The cursor, Ins.
Del, and Backspace keys are all you
need. To start the program, give the
command ENVED while in the directory
containing the ENVED.EXE file.

The program begins in Insert
mode, which means that anything you
type on an existing line will push other
characters to the right. Press the Ins
key to toggle tretyveen this mode and
overtype mode. Overtype mode causes
you to overwrite existing text as you
type. To delete characters, just use the
Del or Backspace key.

Once you've finished making your
changes, save your work by pressing
Ctri-K, X (hold down the Ctrl key while
you press K and X). If you decide not to
make any changes, just press Esc to
exit the program without saving. It's that
easy.

You'll be able to use all of the envi-
ronment functions listed in the main arti-
cle while using EnvEd. Just type them
in, but don't type SET — it's not needed.
EnvEd keeps track of the amount of
memory available for the environment,
and it won't let you exceed that limit.

PATH, for example, the BASIC line
would look something like this:

Em'IRON"R\TH =
C:\B.ATCH''

C: \;C: \DOS;

Getting access to information
stored in the environment is just as
easy. To do this, you use the ENVI-
RONS function. For example, to find
out what directory is stored in the
DATA environment string, you'd use
a line like this:

DATAS = ENVIRON$("DATA")

The quotation marks inside the pa-
rentheses are required. Now, you can
use that information in your program.
If you use the line

PRINT DAT.AS

BASIC will display everything after
the equal sign ( = ) from the environ-
ment. Using the example above,
you'd see this on your screen:

C:\ BASIC \

Now, let's use this environment
information to open a sequential data
file called CONHG.D.AT. By using
the environment, you can open this
file, even if you've changed directories
within your program. Here's a BASIC
fragment:

FILENAMES = DATAS + "CONFIG.DAT"
OPEN FILENAMES FOR INPUT AS #1

BASIC will open the file C:
\ BASIC \CONFIG.DAT and allow
you to read information from that file.

Here's a final example. You can
combine the ENVIRON statement
and ENVIRONS function to alter
your PATH statement. Suppose you
want to add a new directory to your
path. The following line will add the
directory C: \ UTILITY to the end of
any existing path. If no path exists,
then the line will create one,

EN'\'IRON"RCTH="-l-
ENVIRON$("PATH") 4- ";C: \UTILITY"

Try using these commands in
your own programs and see how
much you can do with them. Remem-
ber that you'll need line numbers if
you're using BASICA or GW-BASIC.

Making the most of your PC's en-
vironment is an important step in be-
coming a true power user. As you
become more familiar with these en-
vironment tools, you'll add to your
productivity and use your PC more
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DOS versions? Are you cheat-
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latest and the greatest? Should
you stay with what you have?

The answers to these questions
depend mainly on what hardware you
have and how you use it. The changes
in DOS over the years have mirrored
the evolution of computing hardware.
As new hardware has been invented
and put into use — high-density Vh-
inch drives for example — DOS has
been upgraded so the systems could
use the new hardware.

You'll see DOS referred to as
either PC-DOS or MS-DOS. Both ver-
sions are produced by Microsoft. PC-
DOS is the version distributed with
IBM-brand equipment, while MS-
DOS is distributed with most clones.
Although there are some subtle differ-
ences between the two families, this
discussion treats them as equals.

You won't find DOS \jc in use
anywhere these days, but DOS 1.x,
3.JC, and A.x are all widely used. To see
which version you have, type VER at
DOS prompt.

DOS 1.0 came out in 1981 to
support the original IBM PC, by to-
day's standards an unsophisticated
machine with little memory and a
single-sided disk drive. After a few
months, DOS 1.0 was upgraded to
provide support for double-sided disk
drives.

In early 1 983, the IBM PC XT
was announced, and along with it
came DOS 2,0. This version provided
support for the 10MB hard disk that
came with the XT and introduced the
subdirectory structure we still use.

The IBM PC AT, introduced in
1984, provided another set of hard-
ware enhancements. It was bundled
with DOS 3.0, which supported the
AT's 1 .2MB high-density floppy disk
and provided ramdisk software to ac-
cess the AT's extended memory. DOS
3.0 was subsequently tweaked a few
times: DOS 3. 1 added network sup-
port; DOS 3.2 aUowed S'/i-inch 720K
disk drives and added the XCOPY
command; and DOS 3.3 added sup-

port for 1.44MB S'/a-inch disk drives,
allowed multiple hard disk partitions,
and improved batch-file processing
and hard disk backup.

The DOS 3.3 enhancements coin-
cided with the introduction of the
IBM PS/2 in 1987. The PS/2 included
a high-density 3y2-inch floppy disk
drive and a large hard disk. Prior to
this version, DOS could only access
hard disks smaller than 32MB. DOS
3.3 allowed larger hard disks to be
partitioned into smaller units that
could be accessed as separate logical
drives.

In 1988, DOS 4.0 was an-
nounced. This version eliminated the
32MB barrier, provided support for
expanded memory, and offered a shell
as an alternative to the DOS com-
mand line. These changes gave com-
puter owners with gigantic hard disks
and megabytes of memory better con-
trol over those features. The shell pro-
vides menus and mouse support,
making it easier to operate with fewer
typed commands.

The original release of each of the
DOS versions — 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and
4.0 — was quickly followed by an up-
date that exterminated some of the
bugs. If you're using any of these origi-
nal releases, don't hesitate to upgrade.

While each version added fea-
tures, each added weight as well. The
system files of DOS 2.x occupy 40K
while the system files for DOS ^.x
and 4.x consume 59K. and 108K.,
respectively.

In choosing which DOS version
to use, you must weigh the features
against the costs of disk space and
RAM usage. If you have a floppy
drive system with no hard disk and
limited memory, DOS 2. 1 0 or 2. 1 1 is
probably just fine unless you want to
run software that requires a higher
DOS version.

If your system has a hard disk or
you plan to add one, you'll benefit by
using DOS 3.x. If that hard disk is
larger than 32MB, you'll need DOS
3.3. Likewise, if you're adding 3'/i-
inch drives, you'll want DOS 3.3,

DOS A.x is attractive because of
its shell, but if you don't have at least
640K of RAM and a hard disk, the
overhead will outweigh the enhance-
ments. If you have a hard disk that's
larger than 32MB, DOS 4.01 allows
you to formal the entire disk as one
unit. DOS 3.30 requires you to break
these disks into partitions that can be
no larger than 32MB each.

Another caveat with DOS 4.01 is
that it looks at the disk a bit different-
ly than previous versions. You'll need
to reformat your hard disk under
DOS 4.01 to use it, and you'll find
that some of your software — disk op-
timizers, undelete programs, and so
on — may not work unless you up-
grade them to versions compatible
with the more advanced DOS.

If you decide to upgrade your
DOS, make sure you don't change
DOS families. If your system came
with PC-DOS, upgrade with a later
version of PC-DOS. Similariy, if the
machine came with MS-DOS, stick
with it.

Also, some clones are shipped
with versions of DOS that have been
adjusted specifically for that hard-
ware. If your machine uses such a
nonstandard DOS version, contact
the dealer or manufacturer for advice
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PC-16 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

POWER UP

CLIFTON

KARNES

Hith Christmas just around the
corner, it's time to think about
gifts. Whether you're playing
Santa for that significant other
power user in your life or just reward-
ing yourself for a year well done, here
are three ideas for super stocking
stuffers.

Everyone needs a text editor, and
although you can get by with DOS's
EDLIN (barely get by, that is) or with
a shareware product, a power user
needs a power tool. For editing, the
hands-down winner is Bif/E/" (Solu-
tion Systems, 541 Main Street, Suite
410, South Weymouth, Massachusetts
02190; 800-821-2492); $199. An acro-
nym for Basic Reconfigurable Interac-
tive Editing Facility, BRIEF has
everything you could want in an edi-
tor and about 300 features more.

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up, BRIEF feels like a fine sports
car — fast and powerful, with a cursor
that corners as if it were on rails. In
fact, although the program's setup of-
fers several cursor speeds, only arcade
players will be able to take the Gs of
Fast.

BRIEF is reconfigurable. If you
don't Hke the keystroke associated
with a command, you can change it.
And if you want to write your own
commands, you can use either of
BRIEF'S macro languages. That's
right; BRIEF offers two macro lan-
guages: one that's LISF-like and one
that's C-Uke. Both are amazingly
powerful.

Power and speed are great, but
the feature that really made BRIEF
famous is its Undo, which allows you
to undo as many as 300 keystrokes.
This feature has probably saved pro-
grammers more hours of work than
Jolt Cola.

One last point about BRIEF:
Many of the best programmers in the
country have written macros for it.
That translates into outstanding sup-
port for almost anything you want to
do with BRIEF

To put the icing on the cake, you
could top ofTvour BRIEF g^fx with
Greg and Carolyn Belfor's CBRIEF

Macro Help (Greg Belfor, 1270 Estes
Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215;
$15).

Written in BRIEF's macro lan-
guage, this shareware product is a su-
perb online help system for BRIEF's
macro language. Impressively,
CBRIEF Macro Help not only pro-
vides help on the official, known
S/J/fF commands, but it also in-
cludes details on many otherwise un-
documented features.

Most power users telecommuni-
cate, and so most will already have
some sort of communications soft-
ware. But chances are they don't have
Telix. an elegant shareware program
that can put some of the pizazz back
in everyday computer phoning.

To start with, Telix's list of proto-
cols reads like a telecommunications
Who's Who: .ASCII, CompuServe
Quick B, Kermit, MODEM7, SEAlink,
Telink, XMODEM, IK-XMODEM,
G-IK-XMODEM. YMODEM batch,
YMODEM-G, and ZMODEM. In
short, everything.

Noteworthy features include a
scroll-back buffer that displays the last
seven screens of text and TelLx's abili-
ty to invoke your own editor {BRIEF.
if you're lucky) at the touch ofa key
so that you can edit messages and
other text online.

You'd expect to find macros, a

large dialing directory, and online
help in a fiiU-featured telecommunica-
tions program, and you wouldn't be
disappointed. They're all here. But
unless you were very imaginative, you
wouldn't have expected to find Telix's
script language, SALT. SALT is a very
versatile C-like scripting language.
You simply can't go wrong with Telix.

No matter what a power user's
special interests are, if he or she has a
PC, it's a sure bet that there's a key-
board attached. .Although every PC is
shipped with a keyboard, it's usually
one of a verage-io-poor quality. Most
people don't even think of replacing
their keyboards with belter ones, but
if you surprise your loved one with a
ZEOS/RS keyboard (ZEOS Interna-
tional, 530 5th Avenue NW, St. Paul,
Minnesota 55 112; 800-423-5891;
$89.95), you'll have a friend for life.

The ZEOS is notable for two
things: It's significantly smaller than
the usual 101-key keyboards, and it
has the best feel of any keyboard on
the planet.

Because of the ZEOS's small size,
it takes up only 75 percent of the desk
space used by a normal keyboard.
That's great in general, but if you have
a mouse or a trackball, that means
that you can gel these devices much
closer to your keys and save precious
hand movement when you go from
one to the other.

The ZEOS may be small, but it
doesn't downsize its keys or scrunch
them to gain that size. .All keys are full
sized and arranged in a standard 101-
key layout with separate dedicated
cursor keys (in an inverted T) and 12
function keys along the top of the key-
board. The Backspace key is oversized
on most keyboards but is normal
sized on the ZEOS.

If you're looking for action, this
keyboard has it. The ZEOS keys offer
an audible click and excellent tactile
feedback. The keyboard also has
raised dashes on the F and J keys to
guide your hands to the home row.
Lights for NumLock, CapsLock, and
ScroULock keys (in seasonal green)
provide the finishing touches, Q

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE PC-17

BASIC TRAINING

TOM CAMPBEUL

nne of QuickBASIC's, strong
points is the way it handles
strings — that is, anything you
might see between quotation
marks. BASICs string handhng is so
easy to learn that BASIC experts mov-
ing to C, assembler, or ISO standard
Pascal tend to experience severe cul-
ture shock.

In this column we'll discuss the
CHRS, LEFTS, and MIDS functions;
then we'll present an ambitious pro-
gram that performs a word- wrap on
any message you care to feed it, wrap-
ping up the result in a tidy box.

There are some strings you can't
type. CHR$ returns a one-character
string matching an ASCII value you
pass it. CHRS is a function, meaning
you can use it anywhere you'd use a
variable. For example, uppercase A is
ASCII 65. Here are two equivalent
ways to display the letter^.-

'Print the letter A
PRINT CHR$(65);
PRINT "A"

This example prints two A 's one
after another. The semicolon (;) tells
BASIC not to issue a carriage return
and linefeed after the PRINT,

CHRS would seem to be less than
a revelation when taken at face value,
but it suddenly becomes interesting
when we realize it can be used to rep-
resent characters that the BASIC in-
terpreter itself uses. For example, the
Esc key is ASCII 27, but it's also used
to cancel an operation in most editors.
So if you want to send an ASCII 27 to
a printer, instead of typing LPRINT
followed by double quotation marks
and pressing Esc (which might pop
you out of the editor), you'd type
LPRINT CHRS(27).

Another good use of CHRS is
when your printer won't print the PC-
specific box characters in the upper
127 extended ASCII characters.

As you can see in this and last
month's program listings, the DBoxS
variable is declared using CHRS for
just that reason.

Finally, it's put to work in several

parts of this month's program. For
example:

' Building a string

Blanks = CHRS{13) + " " + CHRS(9)

This creates a string called BlankS
consisting of the carriage return
(ASCII 1 3), the space character, and
the tab character (ASCII 9).

You can pluck out parts of a
string readily with LEFTS, RIGHTS,
and MIDS. LEFTS returns any num-
ber of characters starting at the begin-
ning of the string. The following
example prints the single word Paula.

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MADE EASY

' Printing a substring

PRINT LEFTS("Paula Abdut slept here", 5)

The AddWord routine needs to
handle the case where a single word is
longer than is legal for a line; it
chooses to clip the word like this:

NextWordS = LEFTS<NextWordS,
WrapWidth - 1)

I won't insult you by explaining
RIGHTS, except to say that it works

from the end of the string.

It might seem logical to use array

notation to check each character of a
string:

' This example won't work!
' Assign a string to TESTS
TESTS = "hello, world."
' Ehint each character,
FOR I = 1 TO LEN(TEST$)

' using array notation. Wrong!

PRINT TEST${I);
NEXT

This won't work because TEST$(I) is
accessing the Ith member of an array
of strings, not each member of I. And
in BASIC, don't forget, a string isn't
an array. The correct method is this:

' This example works!

' Assign a string to TESTS

TESTS = "hello, world."

FOR I = 1 TO LEN(TEST$)
' Print a substring of TESTS
PRINT MIDS<TEST$, 1, 1);

NEXT

MIDS prints the middle n characters
specified, where n is the third parame-
ter. They start at the position named
in the second parameter, shown above
as 1. DrawBox uses it like so:

'MIDS example
LOCATE Row, TCol
PRINT MID$(BoxS, 4, 1);

In the example above, the verti-
cal bar character is printed. It's the
fourth character in the string named
BoxS.

Now to this month's program.
It's a reusable subroutine that displays
a box and then word- wraps text inside
it. Here are highlights of the program.

• The WrapBox subroutine, which lets
you position a box anywhere on-
screen, using any colors for the fore-
ground and background, and display
any message inside it with word
wrap. This is at the heart of an online
help system I'm writing, and you can
use it, too.

• The WrapS function, which returns a
string completely formatted with

PC-ie COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

BASIC TRAINING

word-wrap, given a raw input string.

• The DrawBox routine (stolen from
last month's program and stripped of
comments to save space in the pro-
gram listing), which draws a box on-
screen using specified coordinates
and colors.

• No global variables in any routine,
which means that you can use your
own globals without problems —
there won't be any unpleasant side
elTects.

This is some of the most compact
code I've ever written, but some of the
credit goes to BASIC itself A word-
wrap routine I wrote in C that does
slightly less than WrapS was much
longer and more difficult to follow be-
cause a lot of the things we take for
granted in BASIC, such as string con-
catenation using -!-, initializing strings
to " ", and intelligent but transparent
allocation of memory for strings.

On the minus side, BASIC
doesn't allow array notation to let you
step through the successive characters
ofa string as does C.

The AddWord routine is internal

DEFIHT B-Z

DECLASE SUB AddWard (LineLen, NextWordLen , NextWordS, WrapWidth, Finals, Lines

DECLASE SUB DrawBoj! (TBou, TCol , Wide, High, TcxtColor, BackColar, BoxS I

DECLARE FUNCTION WrapS (Ra«S, HrapHidth, HaxLines)

DECLARE SUB WrapBox (LeftRaw, LeftCol, Wide, High, TCalor, BColor, DBoxS, MsgS

CLS

DBoxS - CHRS(205| + CHRS|201| + CHRSllS?! + CHHS(186( + CHRS(200) * CHHS(1B8)

LINE INPUT "Pleaae type in a teet string: " ; HagS

CALL HrapBox{6, 30, 13, 9, 7, 0, DBoxS, HsgSl

SUB AddWord (LinsLeni, HextHordlen, NextHordS, HcapWidth, Finals, Lineal

IF {LineLen + HextWordLen| >=> WrapWidth THEN
IF NextWordLen > WrapWidth THEN

HextHordS = LEFTS ( NextWordS , WrapWidth
NextWordS - HextWordS + ">-
END IF

Finals - FinalS ■» CHRSllS)
Lines " Lines + 1
LineLen ■ 0
ELSE IF LineLen > 0 THEN Finals - Finals

END IF
Finals

NextWordS
END SUB ■ AddWord

Finals + NextWordS: LineLen

NextWordLen

Line'd be too long,
' Thia word alone is
1) * longer than the line.

* Trancate with flag

* char.

* Force end of line.

* I of output lines.
^ Starting a new line.

": LineLen - LineLen + 1
Now add tolcen to output string.
LineLen ■*■ HextWordLen

' Reinit vars.

SUB DraviBox (TRow, TCol, Wide, High, TextColor, BackColor, BoxS)

COLOR TextColor, BackColor * Set text fore- S background colors.
BottomRow » TRow + High ' Calculate outside of loop.

FarRight - TCol + Wide
FOR Row - TRow + 1 TO TRow + High - 1 ' Draw interior.

LOCATE How, TCol + 1: PRINT STRINGSfWide - 1, " ' ) ;
NEXT Row
FOR Col = TCol TO FarRight ' Draw top row.

LOCATE TRow, Col: PRINT LEFTS(BoxS, Ij!
NEXT Col

LOCATE TRow, TCol! PRINT MIDS(BoxS, 2, l)f
LOCATE TRow, FarRight: PRINT MIDS (BoxS, 3, 1|;
FOR Row » TRow + 1 TO TRow + Higll - I ' Draw sides.

LOCATE Row, TCol: PRINT MIDS(BoxS, 4, 1|!

LOCATE Row, TCol + Wide! PRINT HID5(Box5, 4, 1|;
NEXT Row
FOR Col = TCol TO FarRight ' Draw the bottom row.

LOCATE BottomRow, Col: PRINT LEFTS)BoxS, 1);
NEXT Col

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BASIC TRAINING continued /mm page 19

to WrapS, so don't use it by itself. To
use DrawBox. pass it the staning row
and column {the upper left corner of
the screen is at location 1,1), the width
of the box, its height, a number from 1
to 1 6 for the text color, a number from
1 to 8 for the background color, and a
string containing characters to draw
the box.

A box using the characters in
BoxJ will be displayed onscreen. The
Wraps function takes as its input a
siring to be word-wrapped, the width
to which it should be wrapped, and
the maximum number of lines the
output string can be. WrapS returns a
string with carriage returns embedded
where lines should wrap.

Since there's no text windowing
built into QuickBASIC, the WrapBox
routine goes through the wrapped
string character by character and relo-
cates the cursor at the beginning of the
line whenever a carriage return is
found. It also calls Wrap$ with param-
eters that allow the characters making
up the box itself, and a space of pad-
ding on either side, to be taken into
account.

There's a lot of computing going
on here, and this routine is quite a bit
slower in the integrated environment
than it is in the final EXE. Hi

LCX:atE BottonPow, TCoX: PHIHT MIDSlBoxS, 5, 1);
LOCATE BottomHbw, FarHigtit: PRINT HID5(aoxS, 6,
END SUB ' DrawBox

1)?

FUNCTION Wraps (RawS,
Blanks - CHRSfl^) +
EndHordS - "., 1"
LineLen ■ 0
Finals - ""
MaxtWoirdS - ■"
NextHordLen - 0
Lines - 0
RawLen = LEN(Raw$}

IF KawLen <= WrapWidtli THEN

Wraps = Raws

EXIT FUNCTION
END IF

WrapWidtti, HaxLines)

■■ - + CHRSfS) * Word separatiors.

Sentience separators.

Current line leiigth.

Outpitt string.

Next word from input.

Tracks length of NextHordS

I of lines in ttie output string.

Lengtti of input string.

If the input string is short enough,
ahort'circuit the function^ returning
the input string unchanged.

FOR Index ■ 1 TO RavLen

tiextCharS - HIDS(Raw$, Index, 1) ' Next character from the string.
IF INSTR(BlankS, NextCharS | THEN ■ The next word has been built.

CALL AddWord[LineLen, NextWordLen, NextwordS^ WrapWidtli, Finals, Lines)
ELSE

NextWotdS = NextWordS ♦ NextCharS ' Not a blank.

NextWordLen ■ NextWordLen + 1 ' Track its length,

IF lKSTR|EndWordS, NextCharS | THEN ' If punctuation mark, end word.

CALL AddWordfLineLen, NextWordLen, NextHordS^ WrapWidth, Finals, Lines
END IF
END IF
NEXT
IF NextWordS <> "" THEN

CALL AddWordfLineLen, NextWordLen, NextWoirdS, HrapHidth, Finals, Lines)
END IF

Wraps = Finals
END FUNCTION ' WrapS

SUB WrapBox (LeftRow, LsftCol, Wide, High, TColor, BColor, DBoxS, MsgS)
CALL DrawBox I LeftRow, LeftCol, Wide, High, TColor, BColor, DBoxS |

MagS - WrapSIHsgS, Wide - 5, High)
HsgLen = L£N(Hsg$)
NextRow - LeftRow + 1
LOCATE NextRoH, LeftCol + 2
FOR Index = 1 TO HsgLen

NextCharS - HIDSlMsgS, Index, 1)

IF NextCharS " CHRS(13( THEN
HextKow " NextRow + !
LOCATE HextRou, LeftCol + 2

ELSE PRINT NextCharS;

END IF

IF NextRow >=
NEXT Index
END SUB • WrapBox

Word-wrap input with inside padding.
Calculate this outside of loop,
start under the top row of the box.
Start one past the left row.
Loop through word-wrapped input,
jumping over to the left side when
a carriage return is hit and printing
all other characters as is. ThetJ
right boundary has already been
taken care of with the call to
WrapS ■

LeftRow + High TISEN EXIT SUB ■ Truncate at bottom.

PC-20 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

HOT TIPS

HINTS

AND

TIPS

FROM

OUR

READERS

Have you ever wondered why the
single and double dots ( . and
. . ) appear as the first two files
in all your subdirectory listings?
These two directory entries refer
to the parent directory of the current
directory and the current director^' it-
self. They are automatically included
when a subdirectory is created with
the MKDIR command.

You can use these entries to navi-
gate through the DOS directory struc-
ture on your disks using the CD
command. You can enter CD . . at the
DOS prompt to move to the parent
directory of the current directory
without specifying a long path. Try
moving up two levels by entering CD
. . \ . . at the DOS prompt. You can
move freely through the entire direc-
tory structure this way.

Kim Rokosa
Bristol. CT

Label Miser

How many labels do you waste when
setting printer tabs and linefeeds? Try
printing on the back side of the labels
until the settings are correct. You
don't even need to hold the labels up
to the light to determine what adjust-
ments are required. When you're sat-
isfied with the results, simply feed the
labels into the printer with the label
side up. You'll get rows and rows of
perfect labels with no waste. This tip
is especially handy for printing three-
wide labels.

David Nagel
Jenison, MI

WordMaster Mail Merge

I was disappointed that WordMaster
(May 1 990 COMPUTE'/s PC Maga-
zine) lacked a mail-merge option.
Then I discovered that WordMaster'^
macro language is sufficient for creat-
ing a basic mail-merge option.

The easiest way to create a macro
is to use Edit mode under Macros (lo-
cated in the Misc menu). Press Fl,
highliglit Macros in the Misc menu,
and then press Enter. Go to Edit mac-
ros, highlight the first entrj' that says
No Name, and then press Enter. Enter

your macro name (for instance, SET-
UP). .A.n empty box will appear on the
screen. Press the appropriate keys (see
macros below). To include the Enter
key or cursor keys, press ScrollLock,
press the key, and press ScrollLock
again. Press Enter to exit Edit mode.

After you've entered the macros
below, highlight Store macros and enter
a filename such as WM at the prompt.

The following macros implement
a framework for mail merge that pro-
vides the basics and can be modified
or extended easily. It consists of two
steps: a setup function and a merge-
next-address function.

Mail-Merge Setup:

Ctrl-F8 ADDRESS.LIST Enter Alt-
F8 Alt-FlO D:S$temp$$ Enter

This macro opens a new window,
loads in the address list, switches back
to the document, and saves a tempo-
rar>' working copy.

Merge Next .Address:

Ctrl-PgUp Alt F2 %address% Enter
Enter Ctrl-Y Alt-F8 Ctrl-B Ctrl-S
On Dn Dn Dn Dn Ctrl-B Ctrl-E
Alt-F8 Ctrl-B Ctr!-C Alt-FlO
D:S$tenipSS Enter Y Shift-F7 Dn
Enter D:SStemp$S Enter Up Enter
Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y
%address%

This macro goes to the beginning
of the document, looks for the string
%address%, and deletes it. Then it
switches to the address window, starts
a block, moves down five lines, and
ends the block. Next it switches to the
document, does a block copy, saves
the working copy, prints the docu-
ment, deletes the address, and puts
the search string %address% back in
the document.

Each address in the address list
must consist of five lines for these
macros to work on your system. You
can change the setup macro to write to
your hard drive or a floppy disk as
well. Simply change the D: in the
macros to the correct drive identifier,
such as C: for vour hard disk.

You can merge each enti^' one at
a time by pressing the .Alt key assigned
to the merge macro, or you can auto-
mate the entire process by creating a
third macro that invokes the setup
and merge macros as many times as
needed to process the entire list.

Robert Rankin
Ne^vPaltz.NY

Date

If your system uses an AUTOEXEC
.BAT file in its boot-up sequence, the
date and time prompts don't appear
when the system boots. If you'd like to
see the current date and time at boot-
up to make sure your system clock is
accurate but you don't want to enter a
new date, add the following lines to
your AUTOEXEC.B.AT file.

ECHO OFF

DATE < RETURN.DAT I FIND "C"

> DATE.TMP
TYPE DATE.TMP

Make sure the C in the second
line is uppercase (FIND is one of a
very few DOS commands that are
case-sensitive). Then create a file
called RETURN.D.'KT bv entering
COPY CON RETURN.b.AT at the
DOS prompt. Next press the Enter
key, F6, and Enter again. This creates
a file with a single carriage return to
send to the DATE command. The
FIND.EXE file that comes on your
DOS disk should also be available to
the system (the directory where it's lo-
cated should be listed in the PATH
statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file).

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ON DISK

GEORGE

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for this issue's disk, we've rounded
up an assortment of shareware
and public domain programs you
won't want to miss. Ranging
from a floppy disk organizer to an
educational math game, they're all
winners.

If you bought your copy oi COM-
PUTE on the newsstand, you'll want
to order your own copy of this disk so
you can try out the programs. Sub-
scribers aulomalically get these disks,
so if you haven't subscribed to COM-
PUTE'S PC Disk yet, now's the time.
For more information, see the order
blank on the next page.

If you have the disk, to find out
how to use it, insert it in your drive
and run CMOS, COMPVTE's Menu
Operating System, by typing ME>rU
at the DOS prompt. Next, choose
Information and Extras from the
disk's initial menu. On the subsequent
menu, select How to Use the Disk,
and you're on your way,

DISKTRAK

If you're like most PC users, you've
accumulated an impressive stack of
floppy disks, and finding the file you
need can be tough. Stuffing each disk
in a floppy drive and listing a direc-
tory is one way, but it can take hours.

DISKTRAK. written by Califor-
nia programmer Birk Binnard, is the
answer. It's a database program for
your disk collection. It automatically
reads your disks' directories, adding
the filenames to its data file. .All you
do is feed your disks into a floppy
drive— D/SAT;?.-! A" does the rest. To
find a file later, just type in the whole
or partial name of the file; DISK-
TRAKwW locale it almost instantly.

That's not all. DISKTRAK \els
you add a note for each file, making it
that much easier to identify your pro-
grams and data. It can read the names
of files inside a compressed ZIP file,
print detailed reports for future refer-
ence, and help you delete unwanted
files. The moving-bar menus make it
easy to learn and use.

To run DISKTR.4K. you'll need
an IBM, Tandy, or compatible PC

with at least 256K of RAM, DOS 2.1
or higher, and a minimum of two
floppy disk drives. DISKTRAK is a
shareware program, with a low regis-
tration fee of only $10.

Star Blaster

Education really can be fun, and Star
Blaster is surefire proof Written by
North Carolina's Richard C. Lein-
ecker, it offers fast arcade-style action,
with learning as a plus.

Your mission: To reach a desti-
nation in space while destroying or
avoiding UFOs. To do this, you must

solve math problems that use decimal
fractions. Correct solutions can in-
crease fuel, ammunition, and defen-
sive shield strength. You control the
difficulty of the problems.

You'll need to keep your wits
about you, though, because Star Blast-
er is a fast-moving game requiring all
your concentration. The program uses
the keyboard during play, but you can
select menu functions with a mouse.

You'll need an IBM, Tandy, or
compatible PC with at least 256K of
RAM and a CGA display or better
(EGA, MCGA, or VG.A.) to run Star

Blaster. Registration for this share-
ware program is only $ 1 5, and regis-
tered users receive three more
educational games from the author.

EnvEd

The little-known DOS environment is
a powerful tool for users, storing your
PC's PATH, variables, and other im-
portant data. Unfortunately, editing
the individual elements in the envi-
ronment can be a tough job. Most
people make changes to their AUTO-
EXEC.BAT file and reboot,

EnvEd is a tiny program designed
to solve this problem. It lets you edit
any item in the DOS environment,
with a word processor-like screen that
uses a subset of the WordStar com-
mand set. Written by Jeff Bowles, it
simplifies a difficult job. You'll need
an IBM, Tandy, or compatible PC,
DOS 2. 1 or higher, but only 128K of
memory to use the program.

To help you understand the DOS
environment, see the feature article
"Becoming a PC Environmentalist"
in this issue of COMPUTE's PC.
You'll find information there about
the environment in general and about
this valuable program in particular.

Screen Saver

There are scores of programs on the
shareware market that blank your
computer's screen after a period of in-
activity. Most are limited to specific
video modes, and many can't handle
graphics-based programs,

Tom Donnelly, a California pro-
grammer, wrote Screen Saver to give
users one program that handles every
possible situation. It will clear any
monitor at an interval you set. Press-
ing any key or moving your mouse re-
stores your screen instantly.

That's not all Screen Saver can
do. It can also blank your screen any-
time you like. Just press a hot key of
your choice. Finally, you can desig-
nate a password, which allows you to
blank the screen and leave your com-
puter without worrying about unau-
thorized access.

Screen Saver uses a separate in-

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memory-resident program takes over.
You can change configurations or
turn off the program at any time.

To use Screen Saver, you'll need
an IBM-compatible PC with at least
40K of free memory, any video adapt-
er, and DOS 2.0 or higher. The author
requests a registration fee of $20,

REPL

At one time or another, most of us
need to replace text in a group of files.
While most word processors can do
this on a single file, it's not so easy
when you have many files to change,

John Bridges, from California,
came up with REPL to handle this
job. To use it, you create an ASCII file
with any text editor. This file contains
the original text, followed by the new
text, and can contain multiple search-
and-replace pairs. Once you've creat-
ed the file, a simple command sends
REPL into action. Before you know
it, the job is done.

Some common uses for REPL in-
clude altering a drive name in a list of
batch files or changing passwords in a
group of log-on scripts for communi-
cations software. REPL can run on
any PC with at least 128K of RAM
and DOS 2. 1 or higher. The program
requires no registration fee.

Secho

Almost every PC owner uses batch
files to speed up and automate DOS
commands. There's just one problem:
Regular batch files are boring. There's
no color or sound, just a series of
humdrum DOS commands.

Secho, from Michigan author
Chris Lucksted, puts an end to all that
tedium. It's designed to replace the
DOS ECHO command, which you
normally use to write text to the
screen in batch files.

Using Secho, you can add cus-
tomized sound effects, change screen
colors, display the date or time, clear
the screen by fading it out, or pause
for a specific time. You can also use
Secho to place text anywhere on the
screen, display available memory,
draw boxes and windows, and more.

You can use Secho on any PC,
but its color commands, naturally, re-
quire a color monitor. The author
asks for a contribution of $10 if you
like the program. 3

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GEORGE CAMPBELL

Everyone needs to take a break
from time to time, and PC
games are an ideal way to escape
the monotony of everyday
chores. There's no shortage of exciting
and entertaining games, ranging from
simple, text-based adventures to the
latest arcade-style thrillers.

Most of these games, however,
lack one thing: competition. There's
something about playing against a hu-
man opponent that makes a game
more satisfying. While some games
allow two or more people to play,
switching players can take some of the
excitement out of the process.

The answer is as close as your
telephone. You can use your modem
as a gateway into the world of onhne
competition. You have several op-
lions: commercial online game soft-
ware, online games on services like
CompuServe and GEnie, games you
can play on your local BBS, and on-
Une games written by shareware
authors.

A number of software publishers
have produced games capable of com-
municating with other modem users.
Flight Simulator 3 (Microsoft), Mo-
dem Wars (Electronic Arts), Falcon
(Spectrum Holobyte), and BattleChess
(Sierra On-Line) are just a few of the
programs in this category. All offer
excellent graphics and exciting
scenarios.

Commercial online services offer
a wide assortment of games you can
play while you're connected. These
range from simple blackjack games to
multiplayer text-adventure classics.
On CompuServe, enter GO GAMES
(on GEnie, type GAMES) to go to the
service's gaming area. Access, com-
plete instructions, and help for each
game are just a menu entry away. Re-
member that normal online charges
apply here. If you get carried away,
your pocketbook could suffer perma-
nent damage!

Many local BBSs also offer online
games. In most cases, these are single-
player games, such as the classic Ad-
venture, or multiplayer games in
which only one player at a time is ac-

tive, like TradeWars. These games of-
fer an important advantage over
games on commercial services:
They're free.

Shareware games combine the
best of all worlds. You play them over
the phone lines with another person,
like commercial online games, but
you can try them out without empty-
ing your wallet. Unlike the games you
play on a BBS or commercial online
service, they offer more than simple
text on the players' screens.

All of the games listed in this col-
umn are available on CompuServe
(GO IBMNEW). The filenames
shown are those used on Compu-
Serve. Most are also available on
GEnie and other online sendees, as
well as on many local BBSs, though
their filenames may be different. You
can use those services' search tools to
find them. Just use game and online
as search text.

ModemPoker(M.T>OKIR.ZlV)
allows two people to play the classic
game of five-card-draw poker over the
phone lines. It offers excellent color
screens and can handle modem
speeds up to 9600 baud. Registration
costsjust $7, and a future version will
offer a choice of several poker games,
plus blackjack.

PC-Othello (PCOTHL.ZIP) is an
excellent online game for two people.
It's the centuries-old strategy game,
Othello, updated for the twentieth
century. Aside from its attractive
game board, this game allows both
plavers to type comments at any time.
' Trek 2.8 (TREK28.ARC), anoth-
er classic, uses graphics to create an
arcade-style atmosphere in which you
and a competitor play a wide-ranging
space wars game. It's not as easy to
learn as some simpler games, but its
complexity ensures that you'll never
get tired of playing. There's even a
single-player mode for practice.

Space Shades (SHADES.ZIP) is
just as complex and just as entertain-
ing as Trek. Battle it out alone or
against an online opponent. The
shareware version of^this game runs in
text mode and can be played on any
PC. For a registration fee of $ 1 7, you
can get a graphics version that offers
outstanding screen images.

If you prefer card games, give Gin
Rummy Challenge (RVMMYX.ZIP)
a try. You can play against the com-
puter or dial up a friend for a game.
The program runs on monochrome or
color systems and can use either the
mouse or keyboard. Help screens
make the game easy to learn and use.
If you like the game, its author asks
you to send a donation to a charity.

Just in case one game isn't
enough for you. Worthy Opponent
(WORTHY.ZIP) lets you select from
a menu of four games, including
Checkers, Snake Pit, Cornerstone, and
Cannonball. All offer excellent text-
based screens, sound effects, and easy-
to-leam commands. Worthy Opponent
includes talk windows and a phone
book to list all your favorite oppo-
nents' phone numbers. Eacfi game is
complete with its own help screens. A
$ 1 5 registration fee brings you five ad-
ditional games for the program.

There are other modem games
available, but these are some of the
best shareware games. If you enjoy
gaming, you owe it to yourself to
download one or more of these and
give them a try. q

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Today, we can choose from a staggering array of inter-
faces, including every shading from pure graphical (com-
plete with icons and folders) to textlike graphical
interfaces, such as DOS 4.0's DOSSHELL, to text-based inter-
faces like The Norton Commander, to, finally, command line
interfaces that offer alternatives to DOS.

But what distinguishes a graphical interface like Windows
from an interface like DOSSHELL? And what features cause g
people to gravitate toward graphical interfaces?

The answer is simple: Graphical user interfaces provide a
platform for programs to run under and emulate. At a glance, a
user can tell the difference between a Windows application and
a DeskMaie application — and for good reasons, as you'll see.
By contrast, DOSSHELL launches programs indiscriminately,
imposing no design requirements and providing no special re-
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tools. Knowing what a dialog box will
look like before opening it will take
some of the shock out of using the
system.

Command line interfaces like
DOS and UNIX stand in stark con-
trast to this uniformity. Known for
their unusual program and command
names (UNIX is by far the worse of
these two, featuring commands like
grep and nohup) and given to arcane
switches and arguments, command
line interfaces send even seasoned
veterans running back to the manuals
and software documentation.

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Up from the Command Line

For the past year or so, the buzzword
in computer circles has been GUI
(pronounced GOO-ey). The computer
and software pros aren't talking about
gummi bears. GUI stands for graphi-
cal user interface, the hottest ten-year-
old news story around.

About ten years ago, the first
graphical interface was displayed by
its proud developers at the Xerox Palo
Alto Research Center, changing the
way Steve Jobs — and, later, the rest of
us — thought of computer/human
interaction.

A graphical user interface in-
volves more than being able to work
with pictures, called icons, on a graph-
ic (rather than text) screen. It also re-
fers to the look and feel of iht
programs that run under the graphical
user interface.

You may recognize look and feel
as another recent buzzword. This
phrase was used in Apple's 1989
lawsuits alleging that Microsoft's
Windows and Hewlett-Packard's New-
Wave were too much like the Macin-
tosh interface.

Industry wags had a field day
with the lascivious overtones of the
phrase, and many were quick to point
out that Apple was far from the first
to apply graphical interfaces to a
computer.

The merits of these cases will
have to be weighed in the courts. The
only thing certain is this: Whoever
created the graphical interfaces was
right on the money. Users like graphi-
cal interfaces, find them easy to work
with, and can even develop an affec-
tion for them — three statements that
could never be made about the com-
mand line interface.

A few dissenting voices have spo-
ken out, however, complaining that
graphical interfaces are too slow, too
RAM-hungry, and too idiosyncratic.
But despite these complainers, the
momentum is clearly in the direction
of graphical user interfaces.

Getting Graphic

If you're new to graphical interfaces,
you should know that they can be
confusing at first. As a group, they
aren't as intuitive as their creators
might have you believe.

The advantage of a graphical in-
terface is that it can be learned quickly
and with only a little work, in contrast
to DOS, Programs that run under a
graphical user interface will follow
certain conventions: Menus, file han-
dling, and navigation will all be basi-
cally the same from one application to
another.

This uniformity is ensured by the
fact that the program running under a
graphical interface uses the same rou-

PC-28 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1990

with Presentation Manager, the OS/2
graphical interface, providing a bridge
OS/2 has lacked: a ready supply of
commercial software that can use the
resources OS/2 offers. Whether or not
this linkage occurs, Windows pro-
grams today are identical to their Pre-
seniation Manager counterparts, from
the user's point of view. IBM and Mi-
crosoft have been looking for a gentle
way to convince its millions of cus-
tomers to walk up the ramp to OS/2.
Windows 3.0 may be just the ticket.
Although Windows ships with a
usable complement of software, only
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and most likely lie between you and
the future. Decisions about which in-
terface dominates the market are not
made by industry insiders or com-
puter gurus, but rather by people like
you and me, who take our hard-
earned dollars to the computer store,
weigh the alternatives, and take home
the interface that most closely meets
our needs. So it's important that some
time and space be devoted to looking
over the features (and futures) of the
interface options available.

Windows

Microsoft's offering for the MS-DOS
GUI world is probably the best
known of all entries. In June, Micro-
soft released the much-storied Win-
dows 3.0. This new Windows is much
more attractive, graphical, and com-
plex than previous versions. It uses
RAM beyond the 640K boundary and
can multitask (if you have an 80386
and enough RAM). Furthermore, pro-
grams written to the new Windows 3.0
standard may one day be compatible

been third-party interest in Windows
software development. For years, the
only word processing option with
Windows was Windows Write. Re-
cently, Samna's y4mi and Ami Profes-
sional and NBI's Legacy have arrived
to fill the gap.

Even Microsoft has jumped on
the bandwagon with its own Microsoft
Word for Windows. After years of
eager rumors and subsequent disap-
pointments, M^orc/has shown itself to
be a powerful Windows alternative.
New users will discover thai it resem-
bles Macintosh Microsoft Word more
than it resembles Microsoft Word 5.x
for DOS.

It's interesting thai, although
Microsoft didn't recommend Win-
dows 286 for the 8088 world, you can
run Windows 3.0 in so-called real
mode on a machine with an 8088 or
8086 and 640K of RAM. Besides real
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Digital Researcti
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$495.00

803S6-base<) PC,
2MB of RAM, hard
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Command
line

N/A

Multitasking
and multiuser

None

DeskMale

Tandy

1800 One Tandy Center

Fort Worth, TX 761 02

$99.95

IBM, Tandy, or com-
patible PC; 51 2K of
RAM; DOS 3.2 or
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Graphical

Tree or file
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Task switching
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phone list, to-do list, cork-
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processor, spreadsheet

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Quarterdeck Office
Systems
150 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA
90405

$129,95

IBM, Tandy, or com-
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Text

Menu, win-
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task switching

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DOSSHELL

IBM

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VWiite Plains, NY 10604

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Text

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list, menu

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higher

DRDOS

Digital Researcti
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Monterey, CA 93942

$199.00

IBM, Tandy, or com-
patible PC; 256K of
RAM

Command
line

N/A

Single tasking

Text editor

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JP Software
Box 1470
East Arlington, MA
02174

$50.00 regis-
tration fee
(shareware)
(plus $4,00
shipping in
the U.S.)

IBM, Tandy, or com-
patible PC; DOS 3.0
or higher

Command
line

N/A

Single tasking

None

GEM

Digital Research
70 Garden Ct.
Monterey CA 93942

$49.95

IBM, Tandy or com-
patible PC; 51 2K of
RAM; DOS 2.1 or
higher, DR DOS,
Concurrent IX)S XM
6.0, Of Concurrent
DOS 386 2.0; mouse

Graphical

Icons, win-
dows, file
list

Single tasking

None

NewWave

Hewlett-Packard
19310 Pmneridge Aire.
Cupertino, CA 95014

Si 95.00

80386 system with
4MB of RAM,
Windows

Graphical

Icons; file
list

Multitasking,
with the ability
to make pro-
grams interact
within a single
document

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The Norton

Commander

Peter Norton
Computing
2210 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica. CA
90403

$149.00

PC, Tandy, or com-
patible computer

Text

Tree, file
list, menu,
windows

Single tasking

Viewers for dBase. Lotus 1-2-3,
Excel. Oiattw. WydPerfect. Mi-
cmsott mrd. XyWrile. WordStsr,
and PCX graphics files

PC Tools Muxe

Central Point Software
15220 NW Greenbrier
Pkwy.. #200
Beaverton, OR 97006

$149.00

PC, Tandy, or con>
patible computer:
512KofRAM;DOS
3.0 or higher

Text

Tree, file
list, menu,
windows

Single tasking

Text editor, shell, telecommu-
nications, cache, mirror, back
up and restore, hard disk op-
timizer, clipboard, database

Preitntallon Man-
ager (OS/2)

Microsoft

16011 NE36ttiWay

Redmond, WA 98073

$340,00

80386 computer,
4MB oi RAM. hard
disk

Graphical

loons

Multitasking

Information not available

Softfirews

Softshell Systems
11M Triton Dr.
Foster City, CA 94044

$99.00

IBM, Tandy, or com-
patible PC; 51 2K of
RAM; DOS 3.0 or
higher; hard disk

Text

Tree, lile
list, menus

Task switching

File- and disk-management
utilittes

SottwarB Carousel

SoftLogic Solutions
1 Perimeter Rd.
Manctiester, NH 03103

$89.95

PC, Tandy, or com-
patible computer;
192KolflAM;DOS
2.0 or higher hard
disk recommended

Text

Full-screen
menu

Task switching

A companion program is pro-
vided that will swap infor-
mation among applications,
TSR manager

Switch-n

Better Software

Tecfinoiogy

55 New York Ave.

Framingtvam, MA 01701

$99.95

PC, Tandy, or com-
patible computer;
256KofRAM;DOS
2.1 or higher; hard
disk and EMS memo-
ry recommended

Text

Menu

Task switching

Includes cut and paste be-
tween applications and
commarKJ retriever

TskeOmgtl

Departmental
Technologies
Box 645
Andover, NJ 07821

$99.00

IBM. Tandy, or com-
patible PC; 320K of
RAM: DOS 2.0 or
higher; hard disk

Text

Tree, file
list, menus

Task switcliing

Telecommunications, directo-
ry and file utilities, alarm, cal-
culator, calendar, text editor,
card-file database, automatic
dialing through a modem

mrvSms 3.0

Microsoft

16011 NE 36th Way

Redmond, WA 98073

S149.00

802S6, hard drive,
mouse, 640K of RAM
(EMS recommended).
DOS 3.1

Graphical

File list,
windows

Multitasking

Windows mte. Windows Paint,
calculator, notepad, card file,
clock, reversi

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80386-based machine with at least
2MB of RAM.

Windows' cuncni incarnation is
a beautiful thing to see. In contrast to
earlier versions, it will run many DOS
programs without problems. Unfortu-
nately, it won't run some programs
written specifically for earlier versions
of Windows, resulting in many new
product announcements simultaneous
with the announcement of Windows
3.0, This will reap some small change
for the H7?!£/oiv5 developers. Micro-
soft Word for Windows and. Computer
Support's Arls & Letters are two prod-
ucts that can be run under either ver-
sion of Windows. Microsoft claims
that if developers programmed ac-
cording to the relies, their products
should be upwardly compatible. £a'-
cel. Microsoft's own Windows spread-
sheet, didn't play by the rules and had
to be updated for the new version.
From the standpoint of the user look-
ing for a graphical interface, Windows
in its earlier incarnation wasn't espe-
cially ^rap/ijca/. The new version
cures that problem with full-color
icons (on machines with color graph-
ics adapters).

So where does Windows fit in?
Microsoft founder Bill Gales has said
that he sees the operating-system mar-
ket segmented by CPUs: DOS is pri-
marily for 8088 machines, Windows is
for the 80286 machines, and Presenta-
tion Manager is for the 80386 ma-
chines, though tie has eqivocated on
this stand.

As you might expect, there is
some overlap: DOS works on all three
platforms. Windows runs on ma-
chines powered by the 8088 through
80486 CPUs, while OS/2 and Presen-
tation Manager will run on 80286,
80386, and 80486 machines.

Presentation Manager and OS/2,
an operating system and interface
combination, look, act, and feeljust
like Windows. Unfortunately, OS/2
has failed to generate the excitement
its developers had hoped for, though
it is slowly gaining in popularity.
Whether OS/2 was ahead of its time
or whether it was just a bad idea is up
in the air at the moment.

The shortcomings of Windows
and Presentation Manager have in-
spired enhancements from third-party
manufacturers. Hewlett-Packard's
jVdvW'flvc gives Windows a. more
Mac-like look. It also adds improve-
ments like macros (through an entity
known as ihc Agent) &n6. dynamic
links among programs (known as iwt
links).

One 0^ NewWave's, advantages is
that it makes Windows more compati-
ble with non- Windows applications.
NewWave costs $ 1 95 and requires

either a 386 system with 4MB of
R.AM or a 286 system with 3MB of
EMS 4,0 memory. It also requires at
least a 40MB hard drive, DOS 3,2 or
higher, and Windows version 2, 1 1 or
higher, EGA or VGA graphics, a
mouse, and a 1.2MB floppy drive.
This is serious software.

Now that Windows also allows
for hot links and broader compatibil-
ity, the onus is on Hewlett-Packard to
come up with more features to justify

NewWave's existence. At PC Expo,
held in New York City this past June,
I had the opportunity to talk to a
Hewlett-Packard representative. He
made a strong case for Nevv Wave.
True. Windows allows for dynamic
links among software packages, allow-
ing (for example) figures in a spread-
sheet to be updated instantaneously as
values are changed where they appear
in databases, graphics, and docu-
ments; but the only thing you need to

NeXT and Mac

When Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple
by noted fizz-water salesman John Sculley,
people throughout the Industry wondered
"What next?" Steve must have heard them,
because he seemed to think some further
action on his part was called for, and he
named his new company NeXT. Ever the
champion of the black-and-white computer,
he created a monochrome Maserati called
the NeXT. He did it with a pile of money in-
vested by notables like H, Ross Perot, IBM,
and Sony, IBM probably yearned for the
new interface so that it could crush once
and for all that troublesome upstart, the
Macintosh. Perhaps Sony was keen to
place its incredibly capacious optical drives
In the American marketplace,

NeXT was delayed quite awhile in its
introduction. Now that it's out, people — es-
pecially intelligent, well-educated, creative
people at universities across the land —
have been trying to find something to use it
for. Music seems to be a possibility, be-
cause in terms of sound, the $10,000 NeXT
is right up there with the $600 Amiga and
the similarly priced Atari ST, In advertising
and company press releases, NeXT has
been pushing the machine for desktop pub-
lishing, though ttiere's only one piece of
NeXT software in this area at this time: Fra-
melvlaker from Frame Technology.

Despite the identity crisis (which is fair-
ly normal in anyone's adolescence, and no
less so if that person happens to be a com-
puter), no one will argue that NextStep, the
user-interface-cum-development-system, is
remarkable. Beyond the fact that it's mono-
chrome and Is thinly hiding something as
mundane as UNIX, people can't take their
eyes off of it. No one who sees a NeXT in
operation can fail to be impressed with the
fine clarity of the images, the readability of
the text, and the more complete realization
of the standard features thought to be done
to perfection on earlier machines. Looking
at it, it's obvious where Microsoft found
some of its ideas for Windows 3.0 (and
Commodore-Amiga for the new Amiga
Workbench 2.0).

The onscreen buttons and controls are
finely sculpted. The menus are logical. The
windows can all scroll and be updated at
once, even though some of them are be-
hind other windows, because NextStep and
UNIX are truly multitasking. Supposedly,
IBM will be introducing NextStep for use
with its line of computers at some point,
though no one knows when that will occur
(and IBM isn't talking), NextStep is called a
development environment by its creators. It
Includes under its umbrella the Workspace

Manager, the Window Server (including
Display PostScript), the Application Kit, and
the Interface Builder.

The NeXT system is only one of sever-
al UNIX windowing alternatives. Owing to
the savvy media style of its developer,
NextStep has received more press than the
others, but there are plenty of competitors.
They are Open Look, Motif (an X Window
variant), and other schemes based on X
Window, This proliferation of opposing
standards prevents any publisher of micro-
computer software from issuing the kind of
applications that would bring UNIX into the
home or small office, thus promising to
make UNIX the best-kept secret in small
systems for some time to come.

The Macintosh

When it comes to the Macintosh, the com-
puter that arguably started the current
spate of graphical user interfaces, the inter-
face and the operating system are so inter-
twined that they are barely distinguishable.
That's because the Mac's interface was
part of the original design of the machine,
not an add-on as is the case with most PC
interfaces.

The Macintosh has come a long way
since the original version made its debut six
years ago. The original Mac was a 128K,
single-floppy-drive computer with a nearly
useless keyboard and a monochrome
screen.

In its latest incarnations, the Mac
doesn't look very different from an AT
clone. Even its keyboard looks like the
standard 1 01 -key enhanced PC keyboard.
The Macintosh is available with a fire-
breathing 68030 processor, 24-bit color,
and virtually all of the features of the high-
est-tech PC. The graphical interface, how-
ever, has remained consistent across the
years, taking the advent of hard drives,
color, and the rest completely in stride.

As futuristic as the Macintosh looked
in 1984, its interface looks like a toy beside
the NeXT interface. Rather than attempting
to maintain its place at the head of the line
through litigation, many people wish Apple
would expend more effort on innovation.

Over the years, Apple has effectively
quashed all efforts to done the Macintosh
(though recently Apple has entered into an
agreement with Outbound, manufacturer of
a portable Mac clone), but now it might ap-
pear that software developers have execut-
ed an end run around the Apple defense.
The appearance of Windows 3,0 will induce
a lot of PC users to stick with DOS rather
than switch to the Mac,

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do to break the dynamic link in H'/>i-
dows is change a linked document's
name. NewlVave mamiains the link,
regardless of the changes made in the
document or in its name.

The links NewWave provides are
more powerful as well. Placing a
linked graphic file in Microsoft Word
for Windows, a Windows product re-
quires that it be in a format the pro-
gram can handle, such as TIF or
Windows Metafile. If a new format
emerged tomorrow, a new version of
the Word product would have to be
developed to accommodate it. In the
Ami Professional version developed
for use with Nev.'Wave, the word pro-
cessor has nothing to do with the
graphic. When a linked graphic is im-
ported, it remains part of the program
that created it. I saw a demonstration
in which an animated graphic was im-
ported to SLnA?7V Professional docu-
ment. The word processor didn't have
to be able to provide animation for
the graphic. All it did was allow the
section of the page where the anima-
tion appeared to be a part of the exter-
nal animation program.

The NewWave environment fea-
tures Agent, a macro recorder similar
to Recorder, provided with Windows
3.0. But instead of simply recording
keypresses and mouse movements as
does Recorder, Agent deals with files
by name and its macros take the form
of programs that can be edited with a
word processor. If you use Windows
3.0's macro recorder capability, it will
record that you moved the mouse to a
given position and double-clicked to
invoke Excel. However, if you move
Excel to a different location on the
screen and replace it with an Ami Pro-
fessional document, invoking the
macro will start Ami Professional in-
stead of Excel. By contrast, Neiv-
Wave's Agent will contain instructions
to start Excel, regardless of its posi-
tion on the screen. This will make
your macros more reliable and there-
fore more useful.

GEM

Gary Kildall's Digital Research is one
of the great might-have-beens of the
computer industry. It was once king
of the hill with its ubiquitous CP/M
operating system, but because of mis-
understandings with representatives
from big blue IBM, Microsoft — rather
than Digital Research — got the nod to
create DOS. Shortly after the appear-
ance of the IBM PC, Digital saw its
market share dwindle to a ver>' few
true believers.

Ever since, with product after
product, Digital Research has tried to
find its niche in a world it never
made— the world of DOS. One of
these products is DR DOS, an MS-

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Which Interface Is Right for You?

How can you decide which interface is for
you?

If you're managing a large number of
programs and would like to be able to
switch among them, consider a task
switcher like SwUch-lt. Take Charge!, or
SoftBreeze rather than a graphical inter-
face. Context switchers are generally mucfi
more efficient in their use of RAM, and they
usually require little from the programs they
switch.

If you're Interested in running Windows
applications, such as Word for Wmdows
and Ami, you'll probably want Windows. In
addition, it comes with two powerful pro-
grams: Microsoft Windows Write and Mi-
crosoft Windows Paint.

As a file switcher, Microsoft Windows
may cause you some problems. A small
group of DOS applications steadfastly re-
fuse to run under Windows. Yet it's the
leader of the pack of graphical interfaces
because the programs that will run under it,
using its resources and emulating it, include
some of the major success stories of soft-
ware. CorelDraw, Arts & Letters, and Mi-
crografx Designer, the big-three PC
drawing programs, are all Windows appli-
cations. Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet is
only available as a Windows application,
and Wfnofows-based word processors are
also tjeginning to appear in numbers. The
first databases have begun to appear, too.

GEM draws very little attention these
days, but it's a good file switcher and far
more graphical at its heart than Windows
2.x was. One of OEM's biggest claims to
fame is that it provides the operating envi-
ronment for Ventura Publisher, one of the
two top PC desktop publishing packages.

It's been said that a musical instrument
exists to perform the music written for it.
Few people study basset horn anymore,
though this instrument was common in the
last century. Without new music written for
It, the basset faded until it became a musi-
cological footnote.

GEM is a capable programming
achievement but has very little important
software written to take advantage of its
abilities. Without software, GEM may be-
come another basset horn.

Desl<Mate will probably live as a stand-
ard as long as Tandy sells PC compatibles,
which means that it will probably never die.

The programs supported by Windows
and DeskMate vary in their focus. Although
there is some high-level software available
to operate under the Desl<Mate interface,
the Lotus DesAMafe spreadsheet cannot
compare with Excel. By its pricing and its
mall locations, Tandy is obviously aiming at
the home and small-office user rather than
the upper-end corporate customer, who is
in Microsoft's sights.

Although Windows 3.0 is very exciting,
DeskMate is probably a better choice as a
graphical interface for the home user than
Windows or GEM. In addition to the fact
that the interface is friendly, logical, inex-
pensive, and packed with features, Desfc-
Mate is a better switcher.

Among the other products mentioned.
Take Charge! is very powerful and takes up
virtually no memory, so it would be a good
option to use, if you're only looking for a
task switcher and you have very limited
memory DESQview Incomes more valu-
able with a more capable machine and
more RAM. If you're operating an 80386
with two or three megabytes of RAM, you
should look into DESQview.

If you're tired of the DOS command
line but don't need the features of a GUI or
a task switcher, consider The Norton Com-
mander or PC Tools Deluxe shell. Both pro-
grams make DOS easier to use and more
powerful.

Command line enthusiasts should take
a serious look at 4D0S. It's shareware, so
you can try it tjefore you pay. In many
ways, it's the interpreter C0MMAND.COM
should have been.

DOS alternative. Another is GEM.

Perhaps inspired by the Macin-
tosh, Digital Research's programmers
set to work on an early windowing in-
terface for the PC called GEM. which
is now seen mainly on Atari STs and
as the operating environment for a
handful of PC desktop publishing
packages such as Ventura Publisher
and GEM Desktop Publisher.

Although it isn't multitasking,
GEM is still a powerful shell. It pro-
vides many of the same advantages as
IVindows, including the simple rou-
tines necessary' to place text and dia-
log boxes onscreen.

A few users are crazy about
GEM, though one witty detractor
called it "CP/M with windows." In its
current release, it's a little more infor-
mative than Windows (for example,
the size of the thumb mark in the
scroll bar tells you how much of the
file is currently visible onscreen), and
it costs half to a quarter as much. .And

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People who run GEM after run-
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discover that GE.M comes wth very
few desktop utilities. You get a basic
operating system shell, which lacks
the paint program and word processor
shipped with Windows, and which is
missing interesting tidbits (such as the
Reversi and Solitaire games supplied
with Windows). Word processors and
graphics packages exist that will work
within the G£iV/ operating environ-
ment, but they are sold separately.

DeskMate

Venerable DeskMate (now in its 3.0
release) would be a strong presence in
the software world, even if it weren't
friendly and powerful, because of the
fact that it's the operating system shell
available for one of the best-selling
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suing non-Tandy users with a Desk-
Male version ihal will run on any
compatible, and it has been making
converts.

It will come as no surprise to the
thousands of Tandy users that Desk-
Mare is a viable alternative to M7/i-
dows. It loads rapidly, can run at full
speed on vinually any DOS com-
puter, and has a graphical desktop ap-
pearance (though it looks as garish as
fingerpaint next to the designer graph-
ics of Windows ' screens).

DeskMale provides an onscreen
clock and calendar, plus an address
book, an appointment calendar, and a
telecommunications module. In addi-
tion, it sports an object-oriented draw-
ing program, a simple word processor,
a small spreadsheet, and several other
personal-productivity programs.

And these aren't the only pro-
grams available to run under the
De^fcV/a/e interface. Se\'eral manufac-
turers have gotten behind Tandy in
creating important software that has
the DeskMate look and feel.

Some familiar names appear
among the software available in this
special format, including PFS.Firsi
Publisher, Quicken. Q&A Write, and
a Lotus product called Loins Spread-
sheet for DeskMate. These software
packages are virtually assured success,
as they're being aggressively marketed
through the nationwide network of
Radio Shack stores.

Tandy is obviously serious about
making DeskMate a contender in the
GUI wars.

Nongraphical User Interfaces

Not everyone is happy with graphical
user interfaces. They tend to be slow
and demand a lot of system resources.
There are ways, however, to work
with the faster, more responsive text
screen without having to depend on
the command line.

The interfaces described below
take less time to learn than the com-
mand line and provide assistance like
help screens, point-and-click selec-
tions, user customization, and menus.
For a new computer user, or a user
who spends as little lime as possible
on the command line, one of these
text-based interfaces may be the
answer.

DESQview

.Although DESQview uses t50K or
less, it typically takes control of all
available memon,'. On some ma-
chines (specifically 286s), it can take
advantage of a little-known glitch in
the way the CPU manages memon'
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it with a keypress. When you press the
hot key, it provides a menu. From this
menu, you can open a window, close a
window, or switch windows.

DESQview is multitasking, if you
have HEMS or EMS 4.0 expanded
memory. Without expanded memory,
you can still multitask, but you must
multitask with programs that fit in the
640K of conventional memory. This
severely restricts the number of pro-

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panded system, pariicularly when you
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account. You can, however, use DESQ-
view for context switching (moving
from one program to another without
having both run simultaneously).

There's one definite advantage to
DESQview: It will work on any exist-
ing system, from the original IBM PC
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please those who need multitasking or
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lis home on the range. And you're mayor
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time periods.

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features three settings of the future, including
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settings of the past. Either Set loads right into
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CIrcIs Reader Service Number 153

Take Command

The Norton Commander and DOS-
SHELL (the shell shipped with DOS
4.0) represent additional options in
the shell game. DOSSHELL is ex-
tremely capable and would be a con-
tender in a friendliness competition
with Windows or DeskMate.

Interestingly, while DOSSHELL
appears to be a text-based interface,
it's actually graphical in nature (at
least on EGA or better systems). Per-
haps later versions will exploit the

shell's graphic potential. If not, this
squandering of CPU and memory re-
sources (drawing letters on the graph-
ics screen takes much longer than
displaying characters on a text screen)
seems a little strange.

The Norton Commander con-
tains ail of the standard DOS-shell
features, adding a utility that can di-
rectly read Lotus 1-2-3, dBase, and
most word processor files. Although
not designed with the beginner in
mind, it provides a depth of features

that will richly reward the time invest-
ed in studying the manual.

Commander also features a com-
mand line on the same screen as the
menu options, providing many of the
benefits of a graphical interface right
along with the command line.

No discussion of shells would be
complete without mentioning PC
Tools Deluxe. If you're among the
half-dozen or so PC users who haven't
yet purchased PC Tools Deluxe, it's
wailing for you in its sixth version. It

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The world of the graphical user interface
has its own vocabulary. Here's a short list
ol words you'll hear when GUIs are under
discussion.

Button, Buttons are rectangles or circles,
usually found in a dialog box, that affect an
operation if they're selected by the mouse.
Generally the default button is marked in
some way to indicate that it can be selected
simply by pressing Enter. Usually, the Esc
key activates the Cancel button. To change
the button that's highlighted, use the Tab or
cursor keys. And you can always click on
any of the buttons with the mouse pointer.
There are many different kinds of buttons,
including check boxes and radio buttons,
but their action is fairly uniform.

Clicking, When you click, you move the
mouse pointer to a specific position, such
as over an item in a menu, and press the
mouse button once, releasing rt as soon as
the click is felt. This action is usually em-
ployed to make a selection from a list or to
select a button.

Close box. You can usually make a win-
dow disappear by clicking on the close box.
The close symbol is usually located in the
upper left corner of the window. Windows
uses a slightly different scheme, providing a
menu when you click where the close box
should be, which offers a choice among
minimizing, maximizing, closing, and other
operations. If you double-click on this box
in Windows, it ads like a close box.

Dialog box. Dialog boxes are rectangles of
information superimposed on the screen.
They're usually designed to appear when
you're about to lose data, or they may be
displayed to advise you of a change of cir-
cumstances or to give you a list of options.

Doubte-clicking. When you double-click,
you move the mouse pointer to a position
on the screen and then press the mouse
button twice in rapid succession. This ac-
tion is usually employed to start an applica-

GUI Glossary

tion or to make a selection from a file list
and command the application running to
load it.

Dragging. When you drag, you move the
mouse pointer to a position on the screen,
press the mouse button, and then move the
mouse with the button depressed. Usually
this causes something on the screen to
move along with the mouse pointer. This
action is usually employed for moving and
sizing windows or for moving icons around
the screen.

Friendly. An interface is friendly if you can
learn it thoroughly in a few days.

Icons. Icons are little pictures of things, to
quote an ad copywriter. There are many
uses for icons. In GEM, dragging an Icon
from one window to another can be used to
copy the file represented by the icon from
one directory to another. Most graphical
user interfaces offer you the choice of icons
or filenames in the listing.
Maximize. IV/ndoivs' windows can be
made to fill the entire screen with the maxi-
mize button, which is an upward-pointing
arrow in the upper right corner of the win-
dow. When the window is maximized, click-
ing on the same button will make the
screen an intermediate size between maxi-
mized and minimized.

Menu. Menus provide lists of options and
commands. While a dialog box will general-
ly provide information and options in table
format, menus are nearly always in the
form of a single list.

Minimize. W/ndows' windows can be
turned into tiny Icons at the bottom of the
screen by clicking on the minimize box, a
small downward-pointing arrow at the up-
per right corner of the window. This isn't
the same as closing a window. The pro-
gram may still be operating when it's
minimized.

Mouse pointer. Usually the mouse pointer
is either a tiny arrowhead or a rectangle. It

moves in response to your mouse
movements.

Move bar. If your graphical user interface
allows you to move its windows, you can
drag the move bar to reposition its win-
dows. Usually the move bar is the bar that
runs along the top of the window.

Scrolling. Graphical interfaces allow you
to move up and down or sideways in a
document with the aid of slide bars or
scroll bars. These bars are typically made
up of arrows, a thumb mark or slide box,
and a gray bar along which the thumb
mark moves. Generally, clicking on the ar-
rows moves the screen a short distance in
the direction indicated. Clicking on the gray
area between the thumb mark and the ar-
rows moves the screen a larger distance in
the direction of the arrow. Dragging the
thumb mark moves you proportionally
through the document. Dragging the
thumb mark halfway along the slide bar
will take you to a position roughly halfway
through the document. Scroll bars typically
appear at the right side of a window or se-
lection list or along the bottom of a
window.

Selection list. Selection lists are used to
view the contents of a disk or directory.
They're usually scrollable, if you see a file
you want to load, most graphical user inter-
faces allow you to double-click on the file's
name in order to load it.

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application is running. Some user inter-
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windows.

Zoom box. If you resize a window, you
may want to make it fill the entire screen at
least during part of its operation, if so, you
could click on the window's zoom box
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has virtually everything, including a
DOS shell.

Since PC Tools Deluxe will inev-
itably be mentioned in every review
of virtually every kind of software,
from disk utilities to word processors,
we don't need to dwell on its virtues
here, other than to say thai it has plen-
ty of them.

Other GUI alternatives include
menu programs, such as Direct Access.
Menu software acts primarily as a
buffer between the user and DOS: It
provides powerful menu-making
options but lacks utilities.

There are many additional shells
available, both commercially and
through shareware and freeware.
Check your software outlet, bulletin
boards, online services, and shareware
distributors for these packages.

Prompt Innovations

Some users are wedded to the com-
mand line. If you've mastered it, the
command line can be amazingly fast
and flexible. Part of the command
line's power comes from the fact that
it's really a mini programming lan-
guage that lets you use features like
pipes, filters, and redirection. It also
lets you automate frequently repeated
commands with batch files.

However, most people who have
been using DOS for a few years have
accumulated a bag of DOS utilities,
many of which may have come from
COMPUTE'.'s PC Disk. These utilities
fill the gaps in the operating system,
making it more usable and friendly.
Common utilities allow you to recall
previous commands entered at the
command line or to display directo-
ries in two-column, sorted form.

Developers of MS-DOS alterna-
tives have capitalized on DOS short-
comings by providing the programs
power users have accumulated over
time as part of the operating system.
Two prominent DOS alternatives are
4D0Sm<iDRD0S.

4D0S

This program is not actually a replace-
ment for DOS but an alternative com-
mand line interpreter. It takes the
place of the C0MMAND.COM file
on your boot disk and provides a col-
lection of useful commands that Mi-
crosoft and IBM left out of MS- and
PC-DOS.

4D0S has two advantages over
C0MMAND.COM. First, it provides
much more power. And second, it's
more intuitive. For example, where in
DOS you have to issue multiple com-
mands to copy selected files from one
disk to another, 4D0S allows you to
list several files after the COPY com-
mand, and it will copy each in turn.

One of ^Z)OS's nicest features is a
file selector that can be called at the
command line. From it, you can select
the files on which your command will
operate. The file selector features a
MOVE command and an EXCEPT
command, which allows you, for ex-
ample, to move the entire contents of
a directory, with the exception of files
you specify.

4D0S also provides a batch-file
programming language that's much
more capable than DOS's. While sup-
porting standard batch files, it intro-
duces a new, timesaving alternative in
BTM (Batch To Memory) files. One
of the things that slows down conven-
tional batch files is the fact that as
each line is read from disk, interpret-
ed, and acted on, the disk file contain-
ing the batch commands is opened
and closed. BTM files are read and ex-
ecuted from RAM, reducing the disk
access and increasing operating speed
by two to five times,

In addition, '^DCS allows batch
files operating under it to use IF-
THEN-ELSE statements, box-drawing
commands, and commands that allow
the batch file to make use of such
knowledge as the amount of RAM
and disk space available, the display
type, and even your PC's CPU.

Choosing an Interface

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Concun-ent DOS

DR DOS

By the time you read this, you'll be
able to buy DR DOS (Digital Re-
search's Disk Operating System) from
your computer store. For some time,
PC compatibles manufacturers have
been able to buy it as an alternative to
MS-DOS. Digital Research's DOS has
all the features of MS-DOS 3.3 (a very
popular version) plus some of DOS
4.0's enhancements.

Two of DR DOS's most impor-
tant features are its support for hard
disk partitions larger than 32MB and
LIM EMS 4.0 memory (the current
expanded-memory specification).
Most significant to the companies that
purchase DR DOS for installation is
the fact that it is ROMable. In other
words, it can be placed in a ROM
chip, allowing for virtually instanta-
neous booting. No more waits while
the DOS wheels grind themselves to
dust inside the machine. Award Soft-
ware, maker of the Award BIOS, now
sells DR DOS on a ROM card. This is
good news for network managers who
want to run diskless DOS work-
stations and for impatient DOS users
who want DOS to be on instantly.

DR DOS sports a witty reply to
the deadheaded EDLIN. Rather than
clone the worst text editor in compu-
terdom, Digital Research has provid-
ed a full-screen editor that uses well-
known WordStar Qommznds.

Another important DR DOS fea-
ture is command line recall, which al-
lows you to retrieve the last several
command line entries.

Power users will appreciate the
password protection for files and di-
rectories built into DR DOS. Novices
will be grateful for the online help pro-
vided for ever>' DR DOS command.

Concurrent DOS

It's obvious from Concurrent DOS's
$495 price that it's one for power
users. Digital Research has a provided
a response to OS/2 in Concurrent
DOS that puts OS/2 out of the picture.

Systems running Concurrent
DOS are able to act as local area net-
works (LANs). The user operating the
console (the main computer running
Concurrent DOS) can operate as
many as four sessions (four individual
programs, batch files, or whatever).
Nine more users can work under the
same operating system from PC ter-
minals through serial cables. Each of
these nine can have two independent
sessions running simultaneously.

Concurrent DOS is designed with
the 80386 CPU in mind and is recom-
mended only for 386s and 386SXs.
The minimum memory required to
run Concurrent DOS is one megabyte,
but you'll need at least another
megabyte to run all those sessions. H

PC-40 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

AMIGA VIEW

RANDY

THOMPSON

BO west, young man!
It's the end of the year and the
end of an era for me at COM-
PUTE. After four years of
service, I've handed in my resigna-
tion, I've packed up my belongings,
and I'm heading west (to the left
coast, as my wife would say). These
are my last editor's notes.

Although it's usually not kosher
to tell readers why you're leaving —
rriost editors don't even get the chance
to say farewell — I'm going to break
the tradition. I've chosen to accept a
position at Microsoft in Redmond,
Washington. Yes, Microsoft, the mak-
er of MS-DOS (smile when you say
that), Windows 3.0, and OS/2. No, it
doesn't make any Amiga products,
with the possible exception of Amiga
Basic. I hope to change that.

Leaving COMPUTE was a tough
decision for me. My work here has
been both rewarding and fun. COM-
PUTE has assembled some of the best
people in the industry,
and it was great to be a
part of that. Leaving
Amiga Resource behind
will be the hardest, how-
ever. The entire maga-
zine was designed,
conceived, and edited
by Rhett Anderson and
me, and it will be diffi-
cult to let go. But the
magazine has changed,
and it's taken a path I
choose not to follow.
From the begin-
ning, Amiga Resource
has been unique. Unhkc
most magazines, it had
no one all-powerful edi-
tor; it had two. As co-
editors, Rhett and I
made a formidable edi-
torial tag team. And al-
though we may disagree
on many topics, we are
the best of friends (we
live only a few blocks
apart, and neither of us
has burned down the
other's house). Besides,

I think our often-differing viewpoints
only enhanced the magazine's editori-
al perspective.

Rhett and I may not be here in
person anymore, but we aren't cutting
our ties entirely. As usual, we'll con-
tinue to write the controversial col-
umn "Taking Sides," and I'll continue
to push the Commodore 64 to its lim-
its with my "Programmer's Page" col-
umn in COMPUTE'S Gazette section.
Don't be suprised if you see my name
on a feature article or two, either.

Rest assured, my departure
doesn't mark the end of Amiga Re-
source. In fact, COMPUTE would like
your suggestions on what direction
you'd like to see this section take.
Now that Amiga Resource's original
bullheaded editors are out of the way,
it's your turn to take command. Write
to us with your ideas and comments.
Tell us what you like and don't like
about the new COMPUTE format.
Give us suggestions on what type of

J

specialized Amiga products you'd like
to see, as well. An all-Amiga newslet-
ter? An expanded "On Disk" product?
A publication composed entirely of
"Readers' Feedback?" These are excit-
ing times for the Amiga, and COM-
PUTE certainly wants to be there.

But enough about business.
Before I go, I'd like to share with you
some of my favorite moments in
COMPUTE history. Warning: These
have nothing to do with the Amiga.
First, there were the Scotch tape
wars. Initiated by one David Hensley
and finalized by Troy Tucker and me,
these battles left no object safe from
our tape dispensers. In an attempt to
find the ultimate practical joke in-
volving clear adhesive, we taped ev-
erything from chairs to the buttons
that hang up telephones (when you get
a call and lift the receiver, the tele-
phone continues to ring).

Then, of course, there was the
time we had to explain to the recently
hired New York native
Bill Chin that the "dead
baby pigs" he continual-
ly encountered on the
North Carolina roads
were actually animals
known as opossums.
Apparently they don't
have any such critters in
the Big Apple.

And I'll never for-
get when Tim Midkiff
wrote a particularly vol-
atile program on the
IBM PC that, when it
crashed (which it often
did in its early stages),
somehow managed to
print a nicely formatted
calendar on the screen
with the current date
flashing. The surprising
thing about it was that
he was writing an arcade
game, not a datebook.
As you can proba-
bly tell, I'm going to
miss COMPUTE, its
people, and its readers.
Good-bve. H

E

O M P U T E A-l

EWS & NOTES

fFiRESALE

Commodore's marketing department says we can expect another ad
campaign this fall, which should start about the time you read this. All
I've heard about this one is that it "won't be dumb," and it won't feature
our friend Stevie from last year's commercials. The company has al-
ready started a modest print campaign to promote a free monitor pro-
motion for the Amiga 2000HD and 2500 (after bumping the memory on
the 2500/30 to five megabytes). Does this promotion tell us something
about the 2000HD and 2500? Since the introduction of the 3000, some
people have insisted that the days of the high-end 2000s are num-
bered, particularly in light of rumors of several new Amiga models in
development. The most concrete stories I've heard are about a slightly
faster 3500 model in a tower case.
-^PlS^ON LEEMON

-.1 '^

'43-D MANIA

Mos^seople have been pretty impressed with Alan Hastings'
Lightwave program, but some were thrown for a loop by Newtek's
recent announcement that it would only come bundled with the Video
Toaster and not be sold separately. Although the Toaster's 24-bit color
output obviously produces better quality than native Amiga display, it
takes longer to produce each frame when working at such a high reso-
lution. In addition, the Toaster can't play back a 24-bit animation in real-
time. This means that you'll need fairly sophisticated single-frame
recording equipment to produce any animations with Lightwave, and
you'll be able to show them only on videotape, not directly on the com-
puter. The biggest complaint, however, comes from people who are
only interested in doing animations that they can display on the Amiga
and who think that at $1 ,595, the Toaster makes a rather expensive
dongle for the LigtitWave program. Maybe those people should take a
look at the $3,000 price tag for the Autodesl< Studio program, or for
Caligah Professional.

Other new entries include Impulse's Imagine, Progressive Peri-
pherals & Software's 3-D Professional, and Hash Enterprises' Anima-
tion: Journeyman. Of the three, only 3-D Pro has been released at the
time of this writing, but the others are due out soon. There will also be
an update for 3-D Pro sometime later this year which will add ray-
tracing capabilities. Of the three, the most eagerly awaited is Imagine. It
promises to combine the powerful rendering capabilities of Turbo Silver
with a user interface that somebody could actually use. This pro-
gram will also work with Impulse's Firecracker board for 24-bit color
output (natch), though you won't get realtime animation on the frame
buffer. The dark horse in this race is Martin Hash's Animation: Journey-
man program. It, too, promises to have a more usable interface than its
predecessor, but it still uses the same intriguing armature model for
motion, in which you create a skeleton for purposes of motion and
then model the surfaces around this skeleton for realistic motion of
people and animals. Those who saw the program at SIGGRAPH say
that it produced a nice animation of sharks, with no hint of blocky
polygons.
—SHELDON LEEMON

A Tad
Better

There's no shortage of hot new
Amiga software in the works.
First out of the chute will be
ASDG's An Department Profes-
sional. This enhanced version of
The Art Depart inent (TAD)
graphics conversion program
adds the ability to save, as well as
load, non-IFF graphics formats.
Other enhancements include
ARexx support and the ability to
control and render to devices
such as Black Belt's HAM-E, Dig-
ital Creations' DCTV, film re-
corders, and the Mimelics
FrameBuffer.

An Department Professional
has enhanced color-palette con-
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TRUE COLDRS

All of a sudden, true color is one of
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computer industry. Once Apple and
IBM discovered the analog RGB
monitor, it was only a matter of time
until people started developing 24-
bit color-display adapters for their
computers. And once they saw the
photographic-quality color dis-
plays these 24-bit adapters provid-
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was the new standard for profes-
sional color graphics. This meant
that the Amiga, which had previ-
ously been in the forefront of micro-
computer graphics, had suddenly
fallen to the middle of the pack.

Nonetheiess, the true-color
craze isn't necessarily bad news
for the Amiga. For one thing, it
means that there's a new emphasis
on color Input and output devices
ttiat can bie used with the conven-
tional Amiga graphics display. Take
a look at the success of the Sharp
JX-100 scanner in the Amiga
market, and you'll see what I
mean. As color tiecomes the new
craze, we'll see cheaper and better

color scanners, laser printers, ther-
mal printers, and film recorders.
Nor is the Amiga community
taking the true-color challenge lying
down. At the recent SIGGRAPH
show. Impulse was showing off its
24-bit Firecracker board for the
Amiga, which allows you to overlay
the normal Workbench screen on
top of the color frame-buffer dis-
play, just as NewTek was once
again showing the Video Toaster,

which includes dual 24-bit color
frame buffers. Commodore was
also showing the University of Low-
ell graphics card, which displays
1024 colors at once from a palette
of 16.B million, at SIGGRAPH. The
main focus for this board appears
to be as a UNIX display, possibly
running a color version of X-Win-

dow, the most popular protocol for
multiuser graphics workstations.
The most encouraging rumor that
I've been hearing is that Commo-
dore has been making progress
toward developing display-indepen-
dent system software that will pro-
vide hooks for running current
software (like the Workbench) on
alternative displays. Until then, all
such displays on the Amiga will be
secondary monitors that will require
special software that knows how to
render to them.

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fairly expensive. It also is hard to
manipulate the display quickly, with
almost a megabyte of memory to
move around for each frame.
Therefore, developers are looking
for ways to do onscreen compres-
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Amiga has the lead in this area,
since the Hold-and-Modify (HAM)
mode can actually be thought of as
a compression scheme by which
you get 12 bits' worth of color for
only 6 bits' worth of data.
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^^^^^^^ isney has been quietly selling Amiga software under its Buena
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^"^^^ be marketed under the Walt Disney name. It's also Disney
software's first creativity program, and it's only available on the Amiga.

The Animation Studio's aim is to provide Amiga animators with the
tools to do Disney-style 2-D eel animation on their computers. The pro-
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of animation — at least that's the goal. Let's see if it hits the mark.>

BEN AND JEAN MEANS

DECEMBER 199 0

COMPUTE

A-7

Interview with Leo Schwab
Creator of Disney's The Animation Studio

BEN AND JEAN MEANS

How did Leo Schwab, a quiet boy from Ma-
rin County. California, become Bots Ewhac,
terror of tfie bulletin boards, caped crusad-
er of the graphic compLfter shows, inventor
of the Schwabby, and author of Disney's
The Animation Studio?

Was it fate? Was it Kismet? Was it one
too many chromosomes? No, it all started
with a high school prank. Leo reminisces,
"Once upon a time in high school, I was do-
ing a video for civics class about criminal
justice, so I wrote a court drama, called
Deafft Sentence. You could look at it as
light comedy, I suppose, terminally bad. But
when I faded up the lilie screen, it said
Death Sentence by Bols Ewhac. I said, 'All
right, who's the wise guy?' and C. H. Sum-
mers said, 'I gave it to you. It's your Swed-
ish moniker,' So It stuck in my mind. I don't
remember what grade I got on the video."

Bols Ewhac Dons a Cape

Later in college, Leo became notorious for
his online antics. "At that time, there were a
lot of electronic mail wars going around. I
was pretty good at stopping a mail war with
a rather long and eloquent flame, until one
day this Tolkienesque mail w/ar showed up.
And being the kind of guy not to turn down
a challenge, I thought fine, I'm going to end
this with one particularly well-thoughtout
story."

Thus began MicroSaga, stan-ing Bols
Ewhac and Nam Rejof, which is an ana-
gram of fellow hacker John Foreman's
name. Leo adds, "The story kind of got out
of hand. It's 200K worth of text now, and
it's still not done. So that's how Bols Ewhac
came to be part of me. The cape came
about when John said he'd have to show
up at our pizza parties one day as Nam Rer
jof In a flowing purple cape. So I had one
made for him."

Leo had a matching cape made for
Bols Ewhac in blue, and soon cape mad-
ness set in. A plumed velvet hat appeared
after the third cape. Leo, who plans a fifth
cape In a short style for bicycle riding, ex-
plains his cape fetish, "There are two ways
to look distinctive in the 1990s. One way is
to shave off 80 percent of your hair and
stick a safety pin through your nose, and
the other way is to wear a cape. Personally,
I think the cape looks better."

Schwabbies

Leo wore one of his capes to SIGGRAPH
'87 in Anaheim and promptly got in trouble

Leo Schwab, the author of Disney's
The Animation Studio, often appears
disguised as a normal person.

with Pixar, though the cape wasn't at fault.
Leo says. "The week before SIGGRAPH, I
saw Pixar's latest production called Red's
Dream, and it was great." Animated on a
high-end graphics workstation, Pixar's
demo featured a juggling unicycle. Not to
be outdone, Leo promptly set out to re-
create the animation on tiie Amiga.

Using VideoScape 3-D and his own C
program, which was used to generate the
points that defined several of the animated
objects, Leo had a working 96-frame ani-
mation of a juggling unicycle in just a few
days. With balls bouncing off the seat and
pedals and the camera view circling the uni-
cycle. the animation looked great— but not
to Pixar. The people at Pixar's booth were
not amused when Leo displayed his vrork
at SIGGRAPH.

Pixar refused Leo permission to post
his controversial creation on the boards
and sent him a nice formal letter which said,
"Although there are technical differences
between the animations created on the
Amiga and on our system, we feel vievi«rs
could be misled to believe otherwise, even
with your disclaimers to the contrary."

So Leo created The Dream Goes Ber-
sert, where an animated Boing ball (a red-
and-white checkered ball that appeared in
the first-ever Amiga graphics demo) juggles
three unicycles, and promptly posted that
to his proliferating collection of bulletin
board Schwabbies.

No one knows who coined the word
Schwabby, but Leo admits his favorite is
Rotiotroff, which appears to do nothing.
Says Leo, "Type ROBOTROFF, and you
get your prompt back, when In fact it has
forked itself into the background and is bid-
ing its time until finally a little robot comes
out and attacks your pointer. The Grunt and
the Enforcer destroy your pointer; then the
Hulk pushes it off the screen."

Enter Reichart and Disney

SIGGRAPH '87 was a turning point In the
life of Leo, for It was here that he first met
the enigmatic Reichart von Wolfshield, his
Dungeon Master for the last two years, it all
started out quite innocently. One day Rei-
chart described his Idea for an onionskin
animation program in the classic Disney
style. Says Leo, "He asked me if I could
program it. 1 thought about it for at»ut five
seconds and then said, 'Sure!' " So began
two years of Intensive programming with
grave sacrifices, such as missing DEVCON,
the conference for Amiga hackers, and
even the Renaissance Faire.

Dragon Master Leo, the terror of the
bulletin boards, had finally met his match in
The Animation Studio's designer Reichart
von Wolfshield. Adds Leo, "Reichart's like
this; He'll walk up to you, and he'll say, 'You
are one of the most creative, competent
people I've ever met. You've done great
things; you are doing great things; you will
continue to do great things; and you are an
amazing person and a credit to the human
race. But don't you dare forget for one
damn minute that I'm better than you are!' "

The product of Leo's collaboration
with Reichart was, of course. The Anima-
tion Studio. Says Leo, "I've always been
fascinated with motion, moving stuff on the
screen, but I wanted to spin cubes around
as opposed to animating Mickey Mouse,
which is screwy considering the program I
vwote." And while Leo feels that the pro-
gram still has some rough spots, his ac-
complishments (along with his wardrobe)
have rightfully earned him a permanent
place in Amiga lore: Bols Ewhac, Amiga
wizard extraordinaire. >

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A traditional animator draws on
onionskin paper set on top of a light
box. After finishing a drawing, he or
she lays the next piece of onionskin
over the first and uses the lines of the
first drawing that show through as a
guide 10 draw the next. Similarly, The
Animation Studio's Pencil Test dis-
plays three previous drawings in as-
cending shades of gray along with your
current drawing. This is the single best
feature in the program; it works like a
charm. You can adjust the brightness
of the eels that show through to make
drawing complex characters easier.

Pencil Test is strictly a black-and-
white drawing program, while the Ink
and Paint section adds color. The
Pencil Test toolbox provides the usual
freehand, line, and shape tools for
drawing, with the notable lack of a
polygon tool. Pencil Test works in all
resolutions including overscan, but
the circle tool has a few problems. In
lo-res interlace, it makes flattened cir-
cles, and in hi-res noninterlace, it
makes heightened circles.

Custom brushes can be picked
up, sized, and rotated, but the custom
brush pickup has a strange quirk.
After unselecting a custom brush, you
end up with no brush at all. Instead of
reverting to a single-pixel brush, you
have to manually pick up one pixel
from your drawing. Strange.

There are the usual text and mag-
nify tools, as well as four eel-edit
tools. Unfortunately, there's no undo
option for the Delete Cel gadget,
which is directly over the Go Back
One Cel gadget. One careless click,
and instead of going back one cel,
your current drawing has gone to Si-
beria forever. Ouch!

As with DeluxePaint III, Pencil
Test allows you to play your anima-
tions by rapidly flipping through each
frame. This part of the program offers
good flexibility, with frame rate set-
tings from 1 to 30 frames per second.
However, The Animation Studio
doesn't have utilities for SMPTE syn-
chronization or single-frame anima-
tion controllers, which limits its
usefulness for professional animators.

Saving animations to disk is
dreadfully slow. A 61-frame anima-
tion that took 34 seconds to save in
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utes and 7 seconds to save in Pencil
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frames by using an onionskin technique, just like pro animators.

Donald gets some color from The Animation Studio's Ink and Paint mode, which
can dither colors and superimpose background art behind the animation.

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The Animation Studio's proprielary
CFAST animation format saves as
fast as DeluxePaint III, but CFAST
files can't be read by other programs.

Exposure Sheet

A traditional animator uses an expo-
sure sheet to track when each word
(broken down into phonemes), music,
and action cue occurs within an ani-
mation. Armed with an exposure
sheet, the animator creates motion
that lines up exactly with the already-
recorded soundtrack. This is noi what
The Animation Studio's Exposure
Sheet does. It creates the soundtrack
after the animation has been drawn
instead of before.

Exposure Sheet is a text-based
editor. With it you edit the order and
timing of your completed Pencil Test
animations and add SMUS scores,
IFF, and Sonix sounds to it. Editing
the order and timing of your eels is
easy, but entering sound information
is downright gruesome. If you're a
programmer or a CLI fanatic, you can
conceivably succeed at this. As a
hunt-and-peck typist, my experiences
with putting sounds into Exposure
Sheet were uniformly frustrating.

When you enter Exposure Sheet
from the Pencil Test, you emerge into
a void where the only information is
that you're at Frame 1 , Cel 1. To cre-
ate a simple sequential exposure
sheet, you hit the Return key once per
cel. Hitting Return 61 times to create
a simple exposure sheet list for a 6 1 -
frame animation was not amusing.

The instrument format was even
less amusing. On Frame 24, we want-
ed to play one note of an IFF slap bass
sample. Exposure Sheet insists that all
IFF sound files have a .instr suffix ap-
pended to their filenames. After chang-
ing the filename to slapbass.instr, we
looked up the Note command format
which is !NOTE ["note.instr"] [KEY
value] [OCTAVE n.] [CHANNEL
<num/STEREO/ALL>] [RELEASE].
Even after two calls to Disney's user
support line, we never did get to hear
that bass note in our animation.

Sound also poses a problem if
you want to distribute your animation
files. While The Animation Studio in-
cludes an animation player that will
also play sounds, it contains licensed
code and isn't freely distributable. If
you plan to give away your anima-
tions, you can only include the Flick
player, which doesn't support sound.

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using a script typed in The Animation Studio's Exposure Sheet.

Ink, Paint, and Camera

Ink and Paint offers a rudimentary
paint program for coloring the anima-
tions created in Pencil Test. Ink and
Paint's toolbox has three basic draw-
ing fiinctions: freehand draw, line,
and rectangle, along with three kinds
of fill: flood, fill to color, and dither.
The dither pattern is a simple checker-
board effect, which is most effective in
hi-res interlace. Brush and variable
dither fills are not supported. You can
use 2-32 colors in each frame, and
each frame can have its own unique
palette! Unfortunately, neither Extra
Halfbrite nor HAM modes are sup-
ported. Also unfortunate is that you
can't transfer animations directly
from Pencil Test to Ink and Paint.
You must first save them in Pencil
Test and then reload them into Ink
and Paint.

Once you've colored your cel, the
program's Camera options overlay the
animation onto the background or
scenery. Camera can automatically re-
map foreground to background colors,
and vice versa. This works well with
simple backgrounds, but complex
backgrounds can lead you on a frus-
trating trip to the guru.

One particularly annoying feature
of Ink and Paint is that you can't ani-
mate from its Exposure Sheet. To see
your inked animation run with its Ex-
posure Sheet timing, you have to quit

The Animation Studio and load the
animation into one of two playen
called Flick (without sound) or Flicker
(with sound). Adding large areas of
moving color can bog down anima-
tion playback speed. And to get back
into The Animation Studio, you have
to run the gauntlet of its manual-
based copy protection, which quizzes
you on words found within the pro-
gram's instruction booklets.

Conclusion

The Animation Studio ($179.95) costs
$30.00 more than its chief competitor,
DeliLxePaint III. Its drawing and fill
tools are vastly inferior to Deluxe-
Paim. but the onionskin effect of The
Animation Studio 's Pencil Test is tru-
ly an outstanding feature. Although
difficult to use, its animation editing
and sound playback capabiUties are
powerful tools that DeluxePaint lacks
entirely.

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ored you are with Disney-style anima-
tion. The program's User's Guide is
chock-full of hints and tips about how
the Disneyites do what they do; and
the sample animations of Pluto,
Goofy, Mickey, and especially Donald
Duck are as hilarious as they are edu-
cational. The Animation Studio has
some rough edges — but it also has a
heart of gold. B

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D #188 Grocsry Lilt ■ A grocery list maker and database.
D #160 Ledger - Complete G/L package, Phnts stalenwnts.

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READERS

Reading Amiga Joysticks

I'm programming in Amiga Basic,
and I want to write a program that
uses two joysticks. How can I read a
joystick plugged into pon ! (the port
where the mouse normally goes)?

TODD LOWELL
ALBUQUERQUE. NM

Amiga Basic's STICK function
works for port 2 but not for port 1.
Since the mouse is used to access
Amiga Basic's own menus, the de-
signers may have assumed that you
would never want to unphig it from
port 1. Hoyve\'er. it's possible to read
a joystick in port 1 by PEEKing a
location in memory. Location
14675978 (SDFFOOA) is a 16-bit
register that contains the infor-
mation you need. The position of
the joystick is returned in bits 0-1
and 8-9 of this location. Different
bits are set to a value of} depending
on which direction you press the
joystick, as shown below.

Right: bit 1 = 1

Left: bit 9 = 1

Down: (bit 0 XOR bit I) = 1

Up: (bit 8 XOR bit 9) = 1

Location 14675980 (SDFFOOC)
contains corresponding information
for joystick port 2.

Amiga Basic's BUTTON func-
tion also works only for port 2.
Here's a program that prints the
directions and button status of a
joystick in port I.

Stickl:

p}%=PEEKW(14675978&)
bitl%=pl% AND 2
bil9%=pl% AND 512
lFbilI%=2 THEN PRINT "right ":
IFbit9%^5}2 THEN PRINT "left ":
lF(pl% AND 1) XOR bitl%/2 THEN

PRINT "down ";
IF (pl% AND 256) XOR bil9%/2

THEN PRINT "up ";
IF (PEEK(10952895&) AND 64)=0

THEN PRINT "fire ";
PRINT
GOTO Stick!

The last IF statement in the
program checks the joystick button
in port I. If for some reason you
don't want to use the BUTTON
command for port 2, you can test
that button with this statement:

IF (PEEK(I0952895&) AND 128)
=0 THEN PRINT "port 2 fire ":

Speed vs. Compatibility

I have an Amiga 500 and wish to pur-
chase an expansion box and an accel-
erator board such as GVP's 68030
board. Will it work with all of my soft-
ware, or will I have to shut it off to get
it to work with some programs?

CARLOS ALDANDRO MARTINEZ BARRERA
CANCUN. ME.XICO

First of all, most accelerator boards
(including GVP's) are designed to
plug into the Amiga 2000's CPU
slot. And since we don '/ know of any
expansion boxes that provide the
500 with a CPU slot, you're going to
have a hard time getting the GVP
board to work with your 500. How-
ever, there are accelerators available
for the 500— the 33-MHz 68030
Mega Midget Racer from CSA, the
16-MHz 68020 Hurricane 500 from
Imlronics, and the new 16-MHz
68000 AdSpeed from ICD. All of
these boards are designed to fit in-
side your Amiga 500.

Accelerator boards work fine
with most programs, but you'll find
a few that must be run in 7.14-MHz
68000 mode (that is, with the accel-
erator board deactivated).

We run a wide variety of soft-
ware on our 68020- and 68030-
based Amigas, and the programs
that we have the most problems with
are arcade games. Unfortunately,
the copy-protection methods used in
these games prevent them from run-
ning on anything but a standard
Amiga with a 68000. You see, there
are certain machine language in-
structions and illegal programming
practices (such as storing non-
address data in the upper four bits of
a memory pointer) that don't sit

well with the 68020 or 68030.

You might want to call the
manufacturers of the programs that
you use and ask them if their soft-
ware is compatible with the acceler-
ator board you're interested in.
Better yet, if you have a local dealer
who sells accelerator boards, bring
in your most-used software and give
the boards a test drive.

AmigaDOS Resource Project

What's ARP, and what's it useful for?

SPENCER tXJRM
CHAPEL HILL, NC

AmigaDOS has had some long-
standing problems, especially prior
to the release of Workbench 1.3,
Because AmigaDOS was originally
coded in a programming language
known as BCPL and the rest of the
Amiga's operating system was writ-
ten in C, AmigaDOS commands —
which have to work hard to commu-
nicate with both languages — tend to
be slow and bulky. To solve these
problems, sex'eral Amiga program-
mers (led by Charlie Heath of
Microsmiths) banded together to re-
write the bulk of the AmigaDOS
CLI commands. The result is
ARP— AmigaDOS Resource Pro-
ject (originally called AmigaDOS
Replacement Project).

To make the individual com-
mands as small and reliable as pos-
sible, the ARP authors wrote an
Amiga-shared library called arp.li-
brary. This library has several fitnc-
tions designed to extend the
Amiga's built-in dos. library (good
news for programmers). The func-
tions contained within the arp.li-
brary can be accessed by any pro-
gram. All that's required is that the
arp.library file be located in the libs
directory of your Workbench disk.

One of the arp.library's most
useful features is its file requester —
a window that allows you to select
files from disk for loading, saving,
deleting, or whatever. The file re-
quester should have been built into

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M I D K

F F

The Amiga has a powerful proces-
sor—the Motorola 68000. This
chip is incredibly flexible. With
this flexibility comes complexity.
For example, there are several ways to
clear a data register.

CLR.L DO
MOVE.L #0,D0
MOVEQ #0,D0
SUB.L D0,DO

Which is the best? Amazingly, al-
though each instruction does the same
thing (clears data register 0), each re-
quires a different number of machine
cycles to execute. The fewer machine
cycles required, the faster the instruc-
tion is. In this case, the third choice is
the best choice. The MOVEQ variety
of the move instruction (which is lim-
ited to a small range of immediate
values) is actually faster than the CLR
(clear) operation. Of what use is CLR?
While you can use CLR to clear out a
byte or a word, MOVEQ always clears
out the entire longword of a register.
However, neither CLR nor MOVEQ
can be used on an address register.

How about these choices?

MOVE.L
SUB.L

#0,AO
AO,AO

The second choice is the better one.
Let's take a closer look at the instruc-
tions we've tried so far.

Instruction

CLR.L DO
MOVE.L #S0O,DO
MOVEQ #$00,D0
SUB.L DO.DO
MOVEA.L #S0O,A0
SUBA,L AO,A0

Cycles Siie

; 6 cycles 2 bytes

;12 cycles 6b)ies

; 4 cycles 2 bytes

; 8 cycles 2 bytes

;12 cycles 6 bytes

; 8 cycles 2 bytes

These instruction timings were
obtained from the Program Module
Analyzer that comes with the ADAPT
assembler system from Lake Forest
Logic. You can also find instruction
timings in most 68000 programming
manuals. We found the sizes of the in-
structions by assembling one instruc-
tion at a time.

Moving data. Here are some gen-
eral rules for using the MOVE instruc-
tion in immediate mode.

Data registers: Use MOVEQ if
the immediate value is in range
— 128- 1 27. Otherwise, use the normal
MOVE instruction. Never use CLR.

Address registers: To move 0 into
an address register, use SUB.L with
the address register as both the source
and destination. If the number is in
the range from — 1 28 to 127 and you
have a data register that is not in use,
use the following combination of
instructions.

MOVEQ
MOVE.L

#VALUE,DO
DO,AO

Otherwise, use the normal MO-
VE.L instruction.

Address addition. Although you
can't perform all of the 680O0's math
and logical operations on address reg-
isters, you can perform addition and
subtraction on them. Here are a few
timings for different methods of add-
ing numbers to address registers.

Instruction

ADDA.L #1000,A0
LEA IOOO(A0),A0

Cycles Size

;14 cycles 6 bytes
; 8 cycles 4 bytes

ADDQ.L #1,A0

; 8 cycles

2 bytes

ADDA.L #1,A0

;14 cycles

6 bytes

LEA I(AO).A0

; 8 cycles

4 bytes

The first two instructions add
1000 to address register 0. Surprising-
ly, the load effective address (LEA) in-
struction is faster at addition than the
standard ADDA instruction. The next
three instructions in the table add 1 to
address register 0. Here, ADDQ wins
out. Thus, this is the rule for adding
an immediate value to an address reg-
ister: Use ADDQ when adding num-
ben within that instruction's value
range (1-8); otherwise, use the LEA
instruction as shown above.

Data arithmetic. Here are some
representative timings for adding
numbers to data registers in immedi-
ate mode.

Instnictian Cycles Size

ADDI.L #127,DO ;16 cycles 6 bytes

MOVEQ #127,D1 ; 4 cycles 2 bytes
ADD.L Dl.DO ; 8 cycles 2 bytes

ADDQ.L #1,D0 ; 8 cycles 2 bytes

ADDI.W #127,DO ; 8 cycles 4 bytes

MOVEQ #127.DI ; 4 cycles 2 bytes
ADD.W Dl.DO ; 4 cycles 2 bytes

ADDQ.W #1,D0 ; 4 cycles 2 bytes

To add a number in the add-
quick range (1-8), use ADDQ. To add
a number in the move-quick range
(-128-127), move the value into a
scratch register and add it with a data-
register to data-register add (note that
this helps only longword adds, not
word adds).

In general, replace all ADD, SUB,
and MOVE immediate instructions
with their quick counterparts whenev-
er you can.

Since moving and adding are the
most common 68000 instructions,
these hints should help you write sig-
nificantly better code. Here are a few
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Replace ASL.L #1,D0 with
ADD.L DO,DO. Replace ASL.W
#1,D0 with ADD.W DO,DO and
ASL.W #2,D0 with two consecutive
ADD.W DO.DO instructions.

Avoid multiply and divide if you
can. MULU takes on the order of 70
cycles. DIVU takes about twice that
number of cycles. If it's practical, use
a lookup table or shift instructions in-
stead. For example, the following
shows two ways to multiply DO by 10.

Instruction

Cydes

Size

MOVE.L

D0,D1

; 4 cycles

2 bytes

ADD.L

DO.DO

; 8 cycles

2 bytes

ADD.L

DO.DO

; 8 cycles

2 bytes

ADD.L

D1,D0

; 8 cycles

2 b>-tes

ADD.L

DO,DO

; 8 cycles

2 bytes

MULU #10,D0 ;74cycles 4 bytes

The first method uses ten bytes
but only 36 cycles, whereas the second
uses four bytes and 74 cycles. The for-
mer method would be best inside

loops, while the latter would be best if
called only once.

Miscellaneous tips. The MO-

VEM instruction should only be used
with three or more registers. Replace
MOVEM.L D2/A2,-(SP) with the two
instructions MOVE.L D2,-(SP) and
MOVE.L A2,-<SP). Remember to pop
the register off the stack in the correct
order when you make this change.

Use PC relative mode if possible.
This will cut down the size of your
program significantly. The Devpac as-
sembler from Michtron converts all
instructions to PC relative mode auto-
matically if you use the OPT A+ di-
rective. If you use any absolute
addressing in your program, Devpac
wilt warn you to change an instruc-
tion like MOVE.B SBFEC01,D0 to
MOVE.B ($BFECD1).L,D0. The re-
sults are well worth the trouble. Ino-
vatronics' CAPE and Lake Forest
Logic's new /ID/lFr assembler pack-
ages also have some support for PC
relative mode.

Use short branches if you can.
Change all JSR and HSR instiuctions
to BSR.S instructions. Change BEQ
and other branches to BEQ.S instruc-
tions. If the branch is too long, your
assembler will warn you.

Know your assembler. If it
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VEQs or BNEs to BNE.Ss, you won't
have to worry about making the
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eliminating bugs and improving your
code; then worry about optimizing it.
But if you know that your code is
spending a significant amount of time
deep in the center of a nested loop, at-
tention to every cycle will pay off. Q

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ARLAN LEVITAN

HOW that "Abstractions" is part of
the new improved COMPUTE
(with secret ingredient GMI-90),
there's a high likehhood that
owners of other computers are reading
Amiga coverage for the first time. A
little background on this column is in
order for the benefit of those new-
comers. "Abstractions" is loosely pat-
terned on the public executions of
medieval England and France, but it
lacks much of the structure and good
taste associated with those sporting
events.

Roughly one-third of the old
Amiga Resource subscriben are con-
vinced that the portions of my brain
devoted to logical thought processes
have been surgically removed. Anoth-
er third is assembling incontrovertible
proof that I'm a petty functionary in
an international conspiracy whose
sole purpose is vilifying the Amiga
and Commodore Business Machines
in print. The rest know that I'm just
plain ornery when it come to com-
puter manufacturers and purveyon of
software.

As much as I enjoy micros and
the people who use them, I firmly be-
lieve that the computer industry de-
serves the lifetime underachievement
award in respect to actually delivering
innovative and intuitive hardware
and software for just plain folks.
Home computing is getting more and
more homogenized, and, for my mon-
ey, the milk is starting to curdle.

Some industry observers claim
that increasing standardization and
the accompanying convergence of
user interfaces across machine plat-
forms will benefit the home user in
the end. If you buy into that claptrap,
let's meet down at McDonalds,
Wendy's, or Burger King for some in-
sanely great food, watch a few terrific
sitcoms on the boob tube, and hop
over to the local mega-mini-theater
complex for the midnight screening of
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

My Amiga friends (both of them)
have lately taken to reminding me
that I should be try to behave in a
more dignified manner in print, since

it's not polite to beat up on your peer
group while company's around.
They've even gone so far as to suggest
that this column should be used to
promote and extoll the wonderfulness
of eating, walking, talking, and sleep-
ing the Amiga way. I'm afraid I'd
rather eschew such evangelism and re-
main on the technical sidelines
(hmmmm . . . guess that makes me a
di.^gnostic).

I will make a couple of conces-
sions, since the in-laws have apparent-
ly moved in to stay with us and this is,
after all, the Amiga section of COM-
PUTE. The rules of engagement
should be slightly modified now that
we're in mixed company. 1 might as
well refrain from beating up on Com-
modore's public relations hacks for at
least a couple of months. That should
give them enough of a breather to un-
lock their jaws so they can switch feet.
I'll try to keep a low profile until
Commodore launches another Amiga
advertising campaign spawned from
an inadvertent mix of ethanol and
Valium.

I've got some friendly advice for
our new neighbors, which will likely
horrify those lost editorial souls who
still pray for IBM to resurrect the
home computer market with the new
PS/1. Before you plop down over a

thousand bucks on tired technology
with a nose job, go spend time with an
Amiga.

Since our new reader mix re-
quires more even-handedness, I might
as welt incur the wrath of tens of thou-
sands of fanatic Amiga fans by not
even making a weak stab at telling you
folks on the fence why I think you
should buy an Amiga. Look, this may
be the Amiga section of the magazine,
but that doesn't give me a Ucense to
ignore the mechanics operating be-
hind the quasireality of the publishing
world. Spending four or five para-
graphs here waxing poetic over the ca-
pabilities of Amiga computers is
inherently suspect, an easy way to fill
copy, and soothingly reassuring to
current Amiga owners. I won't do it.

Our lives are awash with torrents
of "information" intended to con-
vince us that (a) we need widgets and
(b) ACME widgets are the ones to buy.
In point of fact, this column is in it-
self a mild eddy in the currents of
persuasion.

Our media fill us with second-
hand bites of information that we do
not experience directly. Since we tend
to blindly trust our regular sources of
information, we assume that assimi-
lating what is served up results in real
knowledge. There is an imphcit bond
of trust between reader and infor-
mation provider which all publica-
tions seek to build and maintain. The
greater the trust, the greater the capac-
ity to mold opinion.

Reviews of hardware and soft-
ware in magazines are fine starting
points for making purchasing deci-
sions, but there's no substitute for
first-hand experience. I don't want
you to trust me. I want you to trust
yourself.

If you're interested in computers,
go see an Amiga and decide for your-
self. Don't be deterred by negative
comments from dealers who don't seU
Araigas. Go see an Amiga. If you're
thinking of buying an XT-class ma-
chine, check out an Amiga 500. If an
80286- or SX386-based PC clone is on
your shopping Ust, test drive an

A-22

COMPUTE DECEMBER 1990

ABSTRACTIONS

Amiga 2000. Power users who believe
they need the muscle of an 80386
should slip on the new Amiga 3000.

Go use an Amiga. Not for 5 or 1 5
minutes — take 2-3 hours. If dealers
won't spend a thai much time with
you before a potential sale, they don't
deserve your hard-earned cash.
Period.

Trust your own eyes, ears, and
hands. If you come away from the
experience with the impression that a
PS/1 would better suit your needs, go
buy one. You'U probably have a great
time perusing IBM's new Prodigy
information service.

If you already own a PC or Mac,
you're as welcome here as anyone
else. Keep your machine, and use it in
good health. In my book, it's perfectly
acceptable to use Apple and IBM ma-
chines on a daily basis for text-orient-
ed and desktop publishing drudgery.
But do yourself a favor. Before you
add a CD-ROM player or new hard
drive to your present system, add an
Amiga to your computing stable. An
Amiga 500 will cost a lot less and will
widen your options and eyes at the
same time.

If you own an Amiga, consider
buying a Mac or a PC (oh well, here
come the calls for a Holy War on "Ab-
stractions"). This isn't the Persian
Gulf, folks! You can play both sides
and come out ahead of the game.
Anyone who has the temerity to sug-
gest that one size fits all can go build a
house with a screwdriver.

So much for hardware flag-
waving. Let's move on to mushier
material. Rumor has it that the man-
ner in which the industry measures
software sales is changing radically.
Most bizarre is the new MDI (Mass to
Dollar Index) rating for application
software. For a favorable MDI, the
discounted price of the software must
be less than the weight (in ounces) of
the shrink-wrapped packaging. Manu-
facturers who want to keep their
prices and profit margins up are being
forced to load up on bulk. The latest
release of one popular database pack-
age tips the scales at over 1 9 pounds.
Add a handle and the product would
be perfect for impromptu self-defense
or power walking.

For years, telephone handsets
have been routinely filled with lead
shot to yield a solid heft, and the soft-
ware-packaging biz has cleverly come

up with its own variation on that
theme. Who cares if your terminal
package's documentation is shorter
than Sean Penn's temper? Slap 12
ounces of free sign-up offere for an as-
sortment of information services in
the bundle and you're playing with
the big boys.

The weight wars have crossed
over into the entertainment arena as
well. Flight simulators are usually
good for a pound and a half, but those
who require heavyweight material will
opt for tank simulations which aver-
age well over a deuce.

Those who can't go head-to-head
on the basis of sheer poundage are
opting for volume instead. Prominent
among the last batch of entertainment
titles I perused were a handftii that
may not have weighed much, but oc-
cupied three times the normal amount
of shelf space. An eye-catching move,
but it's rather disconcerting to excited-
ly shred a garishly decorated two-
inch-thick package, only to find an
inch and three-quarters of plastic
foam, one disk and a six-page instruc-
tion booklet.

FOR A FAVORABLE
MASS TO DOLLAR INDEX

RATING, THE
DISCOUNTED PRICE OF

SOFTWARE MUST BE

LESS THAN THE WEIGHT

(IN OUNCES) OF THE

SHRINK-WRAPPED

PACKAGING

Since it's grouse season, is any-
one else growing weary of the multi-
tiered code wheels used in lieu of
traditional copy protection? Talk
about storage problems. I've got two
cross-indexed files — one for disks, the
other for code wheels. The last code
wheel I tried using was as much fiin as
a high-security padlock. It had no less
than five interlocked wheels, and the
pivot grommet was just enough off-
center to make using it an exercise in
clairvoyance. Besides, unless filed im-
mediately after use, such devices dis-

appear into a black hole within
minutes. I wonder if anyone has con-
sidered recycling old Captain Mid-
night secret decoder rings as a
substitute for those flimsy and bulky
cardboard wheels?

Speaking of games, I'd be less
than forthright if I didn't comment on
the disappointing quality of much of
the entertainment software being re-
leased for the Amiga these days. On
the other hand, I haven't been thrilled
with Jack Nicholson's last few flicks
either. I don't discern a lack of talent
in either case; the problem is the
material.

For better or worse, the display
and speed capabilities of today's ubiq-
uitous IBM clones have become the
least common denominator (LCD) in
the entertainment software biz. IBM's
VGA and MCGA graphics are better
than a poke in the eye with a sharp
slick, but even pricey 386 systems lack
adequate horsepower to perform the
feats of animation magic supported
on the humble Amiga 500.

So what's happening? Due to the
sheer number of PC owners out there,
the prototype versions of most of to-
day's entertainment titles are devel-
oped for the IBM. Yesterday's clunky
CGA and EGA graphics are gradually
being supplanted by VGA-specific
renderings, but despite their seductive
look, the end products are inherently
static. When the Amiga translation is
undertaken, we usually end up with a
straight copy of the IBM version.

There are a few notable excep-
tions who have managed to evade the
strait jacket of the "pump code and
port" strategy. Firms such as Psygno-
sis (Shadow of the Beast), ReadySoft
(Dragon's Lair), FTL (Dungeon-
master), and Innerprise (Battle Squad-
ron) have continued to release Amiga-
specific products that steadily push
the Amiga's perceived performance
envelope. Their efforts deserve to be
rewarded, but how long they can resist
the siren song of the tens of millions
of IBM PCs is anybody's guess.

On second thought, let's count
our blessings. If the ubiquitous Nin-
tendo Entertainment System becomes
the LCD for entertainment software,
we're in serious trouble — yesterday an
adult asked me what kind of tapes I
had for my Amiga. . . .

I don't think we're in Kansas
anymore, Kyoto. a

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE A-aa

■•■.4..,i

SPOTLIGHT

JOHN FOUST

There's the old joke about asking
a laconic Yankee farmer for di-
rections, and after a moment of
characteristic silence, he declares
"You can't get there from here."
When hoping to move bitmap graph-
ics image from program to program or
machine to machine, don't be sur-
prised if you get the Yankee Farmer
answer.

This month's "Spotlight" ex-
plores exporting Amiga images to ma-
chines such as the Macintosh and
IBM PC. Last month, we covered the
basics of moving files from here to
there, but largely ignored the compli-
cations of actually using this data on
foreign computers.

Sometimes there's nothing to
worry about at all. For instance, Elec-
tronic Arts makes versions of Deluxe-
Paint for both the IBM PC and the
Amiga, and their Studio series is the
Mac version of this popular product.
Each program can load and save im-
ages that are instantly compatible
with versions of the program on other
platforms, once you've moved the file
between disk formats.

Chances are, though, you won't
have it that easy. Conspiracy theorists
have yet to explore the latent evil in-
tent behind the abundance of conflict-
ing, yet seemingly similar, software
standards. Apparently, software com-
panies create their own file standards
because they're so impressed with the
success of other companies' standard
formats. This conspiracy can make
life very complicated for the computer
artist. Suppose, for example, that you
prefer to work in Photon Paini. but
your client expects lo receive your art-
work in TIFF format for a Macintosh.
Or your client has clip an in PCX for-
mat and you want to enhance it in
DetuxePaint. Changing between pro-
prietary formats can be a big obstacle.

As you've seen so far, image con-
version involves lots of three-letter ac-
ronyms (TLAs). There's PCX, IFF,
HAM, TIFF (oops, that's an FLA),
M.AC, IMG, and TG.A. Using the
English alphabet, there are only
17,576 possible TLAs. When these are

exhausted, we can start adding punc-
tuation marks, leading to the A&$ for-
mat, which will be all the rage by
1997.

Getting from here lo there can be
a multistep process. You might con-
vert an Amiga IFF image to GIF for-
mat, then move the GIF file to a PC
disk, and then use a third PC program
to convert the GIF file to PCX for-
mat. If you're lucky, your picture will
still resemble the original.

On the PC, if you have a hand
scanner or a paint program, be sure to
examine its documentation for signs
that it can load and save other for-
mats, thus shortening the number of
steps in the conversion. On the Mac-
intosh, the paint program family tree
has grown a new branch for programs
that clean and prepare images for
desktop publishing, such as Adobe's
PhotoShop. These programs import
Amiga IFF images, but don't be sur-
prised if they can't handle HAM and

f::^

Figure 1

the latest Superhires and super-HAM
variants. There's a similar incompati-
bility with 256-color VGA images
from DehtxePaint on the PC. Some
Amiga HAM paint programs can load
them, such as Impulse's Prism, but
the Amiga version of DeluxePaint
won't handle 256-color pictures. It
will load PC pictures with 1 6 or fewer
colors in their palette with no
problem.

If you're shopping for a program
to solve your conversion problems,

don't forget public domain (PD) soft-
ware. There's a good MacPaint trans-
lator for the -Amiga called MacView.
CompuServe's GIF format has grown
popular, and PD GIF conversion tools
are available for the Amiga as well as
many other machines. If you can con-
vert an image to GIF, chances are
there's a way to display it on another
computer. As a side benefit, GIF files
are compressed to a minimum size,
making them smaller than images in
other formats. Another important PD
tool is a screen-capture utility. Once
this type of program is running, a cer-
tain magic keystroke will save the cur-
rent screen to disk as an image. Again,
these are available for all computers.

These PD programs might not
solve all your problems. For example,
you might notice that perfect circles in
a MacPaint image look like ovals
when moved to the Amiga. Beyond
simple format conversion is the land
of image processing.

Computers display graphics in
different ways. The Amiga's high-
resolution mode displays 640 X 400
pixels, while an IBM PC might fit 640
X 480 pixels on the same screen. Giv-
en the same amount of screen space, a
computer display might use a differ-
ent number of pixels in a horizontal
inch than it would in a vertical inch.
For example, when you load a lo-res
image into an interlaced screen in
DeluxePaint, the image is squished
lengthwise because of the difference
in aspect ratio between lo-res and
interface.

On the Amiga, higher resolutions
double in one direction or the other,
making it relatively easy to correct
squished pictures. The situation is
worse when exchanging images with
the Macintosh. Its black-and-white
screen has a different aspect ratio than
the Amiga, and the problem isn't
solved by doubling pixels in one di-
rection or the other. MacPaint images
are 576 X 720 pixels, assuming 72
square pixels per inch. Displayed in
640 X 400 pixels in Amiga hi-res,
MacPaint images look slightly
stretched. For the same reason, all A-

A-24 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1990

SPOTLIGHT

Max screens look elongated. Mac
monitors display square pixels, but
Amiga pixels are slightly rectangular.

There are several companies
rushing to help you move images
from one format to another, including
formats native to other machines. To
varying degrees, these programs in-
clude image-processing abilities to
help solve the problem of elongated
images. Stretching or shrinking an im-
age along one axis can compensate for
differences in screen aspect ratio. This
isn't a perfect process. Some infor-
mation will be lost, meaning some
pixels might be blurred. For many
video-presentation applications, this
is a bonus, because anlialiased
(blurred) pixel boundaries look good
on video.

MiGraph's Hand Scanner in-
cludes Touch- Up, software for ma-
nipulating scanned images. Aside
from some paint program features.
Touch- Up imports Amiga IFF, mono-
chrome TIFF, PCX, MacPaint, Print-
Master, and IMG files. The IMG
format is native to GEM, the user in-
terface on the Atari ST, GEM is also
used on the PC, mainly by people
using the Ventura Publisher desktop
publishing software. The latest ver-
sions of WordPerfect on the PC im-
port IMG graphics, loo. Touch-Up
software exports all the formats it im-
ports, plus monochrome and dithered
IFF, giving effectively 3 1 grays in
some cases, as well as the Compu-
Serve GIF format, EPSF encapsulated
PostScript files, and hi-res mono im-
ages for Degas, a popular Atari ST
paint program. The scanner and soft-
ware retail for $399 (MiGraph, 200
South 33rd, #220, Federal Way, Vir-
ginia 98003; 800-223-3729).

ImageLink from .Active Circuits
(106 Highwav 71, Suite 101, Manas-
quan. New Jersey 08736; 201-223-
5999) converts to and from a handful
of formats, such as IFF (including
HAM and 24 bit), Sculpt RGB, Turbo
Silver RGBN and RGBS, Rendition
(the image format used in Caligari
Broadcast), Macintosh PICT and
PICT2 bitmaps (but not included
structured drawings), PCX from the
PC world, CompuServe GIF, Sun
Rasterfile, and, by the time you read
this, TIFF. All this is $199.95.

ASDG's The Art Department is
based on the technology it used in its
Sharp color scanner software. It has a

Figure 2

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Figure 3

host of image-processing abilities, in-
cluding great stretching and dithering.
It can load images from many formats
and convert them to Amiga IFF for-
mat. It can read and write IFF files,
including Dynamic HiRes, Dynamic
H.-^M, and Rhett Anderson's Sliced
HAM, plus Sculpl RGB, Impulse
RGBN and RGBS, and DigiView
DV21. It lists for $89.95. Modules for
loading other formats are sold sepa-
rately. (At press time, ASDG an-
nounced Art Department Professional,
which lets you save in non-IFF for-
mats.) The TIFF module is $49.95;
PCX is $39.95; CompuServe GIF is
$39.95; Rendition is $49.95; Targais
$39.95; DeluxePainl U Enhanced
from the PC is $19.95 (ASDG, 925
Stewart, Madison, Wisconsin 53713;
608-273-6585).

To demonstrate how getting
from here to there might work for
you, here's an example of moving a
Mac screen image to the Amiga, via
an IBM PC. Why would someone do
this? Imagine you're using the Amiga
for desktop publishing and your
client wants to document a Macin-
tosh program. You need good-look-
ing, realistic screen shots of the

client's program in action.

Figure 1 is an unretouched screen
grab of a MacPaint picture of a circle
and a square. Note that the circle
looks like an oval and the square like
a rectangle. (The Mac in question is
actually an Amiga, running the A-
Max emulator.) A screen grab desk ac-
cessory called Camera saved the
image as a MacPaint file. Next, I used
a Mac terminal program to send the
file to a PC clone for temporary stor-
age. After all, it would be nice to grab
several images at a time and then pro-
cess them en masse on the Amiga.

On the PC, I used the CON-
VERT utility that comes with Deluxe-
Paint II to convert the image to IFF
format. I copied the file to a 3 '/2-inch
MS-DOS floppy and then copied it to
the Amiga using CrossDOS, described
last month. Once in the Amiga, The
Art Department reduced the height of
the image to 88 percent of its original
size, turning the two-color MacPaint
image into a 1 6-color dithered image
with the proper aspect ratio, as shown
in Figure 2. The circle looks like a cir-
cle. Looking closely at the corrected
image, we can see how the image was
reduced in the Y direction and how
16-gray-shade dithering was used to
smooth the jagged corners (Figure 3.)

What does the future hold? Like
the Amiga's custom graphics display
chips, we can expect future computers
to contain chips dedicated to image
compression and decompression,
leading to new generations of image
file formats. These will encompass
realtime decompression of computer
generated animations, too. If we're
fortunate, these chips will reduce the
popularity of obscure image formats.
As another spinoff, these custom com-
pression chips could lake over much
of the work of archiving and compres-
sion programs such as PKZIP and
LHARC, making them faster and bet-
ter than before.

On the downside, these new com-
pression formats could leave some
computers behind in the "can't get
there from here" wasteland. Perform-
ing the compression magic in software
might be too time-consuming for
some computers. After all, that's why
they switched to dedicated hardware
for these tasks. In other words, don't
expect anyone to emulate hardware
compression in your Commodore 64
paint program. 0

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE A-25

CU CLIPS

M

BUTTERFI6LD

This column covers the whole
Amiga spectrum and will contin-
ue to do so, even though some
users will be upgrading to Work-
bench 2.0 while others choose to stay
behind. Because Workbench 1.3's
Shell is so versatile and convenient, I
will often emphasize it. You may
have noticed my hints that if you
haven't upgraded to 1.3 yet, you
should do so. Techniques thai work
on 1.3 systems will continue to work
with AmigaDOS 2.0. From time to
time, I'll throw in tidbits about how
an AmigaDOS 2.0 system goes about
certain jobs.

Version. Few Amiga users know
about the CLI command Version, but
it can be useful. Say you get a new
program and notice a comment in its
documentation that says This pro-
gram runs only with Workbench 34.27
or subsequent. How can you tell what
version of Workbench (or Kickstart)
you have? You might have spotted
these values at the time your com-
puter started up. If not, type VER-
SION at any Shell prompt, and you
can see them again.

But Version has more features: It
can check the versions of libraries and
devices for you. For example, type
VERSION GRAPHICS.LIBRARY or
VERSION PRINTER. DEVICE and
the computer gives the specific revi-
sion number of these system ele-
ments. This way, you can tell if
they're up to date. Some programs
need a specific library version in order
to work. There's even an option with-
in Version that allows script files to
ask questions such as Is the narrator
device version 33.2 or later?

Your system may contain more
libraries than those originally provid-
ed by Commodore. Supplementary li-
braries may have been added for
ARP, the AmigaDOS Resource Pro-
ject, or for such commercial products
as ARexx and WordPerfect. Type DIR
LIBS: to see all the shared libraries on
your Amiga's system disk. The Ver-
sion command can give you details on
any of these libraries. For example,
typing VERSION LIBS:TRANSLA-

TOR. LIBRARY will tell you the ver-
sion number of the Amiga's voice
translator library.

AmigaDOS 2.0 expands on Ver-
sion's capabilities. The 2.0 Venion
command allows you to ask for infor-
mation about commands and pro-
grams. Thus, you can type VERSION
C:COPY or VERSION SYS:UTILI-
TIES/MORE in order to get the spe-
cific revision number of these
commands. Developers writing pro-
grams for AmigaDOS 2.0 can even in-
clude the version number in their
code, so you may someday be able to
type VERSION DELUXEPAINT4.

Fault. Have you ever used the
Fault command? Here's a surprise:
You've probably used Fault without

OBSCURE

AMIGADOS

COMMANDS AND

knowing it. Fault is often called in by
the system when you have trouble.

Let's hide this command and see
what happens. Type RENAME
GFAULT C:FLT (you can only do
this under Workbench 1.2 and 1.3).
This changes the name of the com-
mand so that the system can't find it.
We'll restore it later, of course. Now
enter a nonsense command such as
DIR DF9:. A requester will appear;
just click on Cancel. You'll see a re-
sponse in your CLI window that says
Error Code 218, which isn't too useful
unless you look up the number in the
manual. Now restore the Fault com-

mand by typing RENAME C:FLT
CFAULT. Type DIR DF9: again and
then click CANCEL on the requester
that pops up. This time, the response
is Device (or Volume) Not Mounted,
which makes a lot more sense. We
didn't type the Fault command, but
the system found the command in the
C: directory and used it to make its er-
ror message more understandable.

Finding the commands. The first
word you type on a CLI or Shell line is
the command — the name of a pro-
gram that is loaded into memory and
run to produce the action you want.
Most of these programs are found in a
logical device named C: which is nor-
mally assigned to the C directory on
your system (boot) disk. The directory
name C stands for commands; it has
nothing to do with the C computer
language. A few commands may be
found elsewhere; the System and Util-
ities directories contain commands
such as Format and Say.

The S (Script) drawer contains
script commands, batch files that can
be executed like programs if they have
the S protection bit set.

With all of these directories, how
does your Amiga know where to look
for the command you type at the Shell
prompt? The computer keeps a list of
directories called the path so it knows
which directories to search in which
order. Type PATH at the Shell
prompt, and the Amiga will display a
list of directories in the order they will
be searched.

Not all commands are found on
your disk in a directory, though. Some
may have been made resident. When
a command is resident in memory, it
can be loaded and run almost instant-
ly. Type RESIDENT, and you'll see a
list of any such turbocharged
commands.

There's one more way a com-
mand can be implemented; it may be
built in. You won't find these com-
mands in any directory, since they are
built into the Shell. On Workbench
1 .3, Alias is the only embedded com-
mand, but you'll see quite a few more
when AmigaDOS 2.0 arrives. Q

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SHAY ADOAMS

AS a Commodore watcher since the
early eighties, I've had as much
fun watching the company's ill-
planned and poorly timed ven-
tures as I've had playing games on its
computere. True, things haven't been
as colorful since Jack Tramiel left, but
I still find the corporate antics amus-
ing, from the overpricing of the origi-
nal Amiga, which nearly killed it from
the start, to the futile efforts to kill the
0-6-1 — the Computer That Wouldn't
Die. And what was that C-128D thing
all about?

So it's depressing to see Commo-
dore finally do something right for a
change. Just when I thought I could
count on its usual ineptitude {you
know, the kind of thinking that says,
"Hey! It's Tuesday. Let's switch PR
firms again!"), it comes out with the
CDTV player. CDTV stands a good
chance of finally coaxing the mass
market into accepting computers,
which hasn't happened so far because
98 percent of the public has trouble
setting digital clocks and VCRs. Com-
modore hopes to achieve that accep-
tance by getting rid of the keyboard
and not calling it a computer.

Because the success of a new
computer hinges on the support it
draws from software publishers, Com-
modore is partially funding develop-
ment and providing technical assis-
tance for some games. This might
even pay off for people with .Amigas,
since a disk-based version of some
CDTV games could be put together
while the CD-ROM game is being
converted or written.

Accolade leads the way. Though I
contacted everyone in the wide world
of sports, adventures, simulations,
and every other kind of game you can
name, only one company, Accolade,
revealed plans to do an all-new, sec-
ond-wave game for the CDTV right
out of the chute. Producer Shelly Safir
says Accolade is eager "to lake full ad-
vantage of the power CDTV will pro-
vide, instead of just porting over
something from another format." Ac-
colade's first release will be a golf sim-
ulation endorsed by Jack Nicklaus.

You'll play on one of the courses de-
signed by Nicklaus himself, and Acco-
lade executives are already running up
huge expense accounts as they check
out golf courses around the world in
search of the best site for the game.

"Through CDTV, we feel we can
provide people the closest experience
possible to actually being on the golf
course," Safir explained moments
after returning from Tahiti, Peter
Doctrow, Accolade's head honcho of
product development, elaborated on
the possibilities as he prepared to
catch the Concord for the Bahamas:
"We'll probably use live footage as
much as possible. If Jack's available,
we'll use digitized images of his swing,
and he'll offer audio tips. Thanks to
the CDTV's tremendous storage, we'll

be able to provide images we couldn't
do on a regular disk drive." While this
game, due out in the spring, could be
ported to the .Amiga, it would be a sig-
nificantly different product. "You'd
need at least 15 floppies," says Safir,
and even then the game still couldn't
reproduce all the CDTV visuals.

Accolade has discussed other
games with Commodore, but future
releases depend on the public's re-
sponse to CDTV. According to Safir,

"The prospect of what could be done
is very broad — suddenly you take
games out of the realm of a stream of
data and put them into the realm of
an emotional experience, something
people can be more involved with.
And due to [CDTVs] location in the
home, it will be more of a family
experience."

Making waves at Cinema ware
and Origin. Cinemaware looks like
another surefire CDTV supporter.
Most of its highly visual interactive
movies are perfectly suited for the
keyboardless environment. Cinema-
ware's first Amiga game. Defender of
the Crown, has been out in CD-ROM
format in Europe for two years, so it
has a good lead on most of the
competition.

According to Cinemaware's Jerry
Albright, Defender of the Crown and
TV Sports Football are good contend-
ers to become the company's first
CDTV games. Albright figures we'll
see two waves of CDTV games. The
first will be like Cinemaware's Euro-
pean Defender of the Crown, which is
essentially an enhanced version of the
computer game with genuine voices
and music. He predicts this wave will
start rolling in by Christmas. Next
year we'll witness the second wave,
which will incorporate live TV and
film footage. /; Came from the Desert,
with its monster-movie motif, is a
natural for this treatment. And we'll
see brand new games in the second
wave, not just conversions.

CD-ROM has been making
waves in Japan since last year, when
people started questing in Ultima 1, 11,
and /// on a CD-ROM computer
called the FM Towns. Development
for this 80286-powered computer was
done by Japanese programmers, but
Origin will now be developing CDTV
products in Austin, Texas. The first
Origin products should be Ultima VI
and Wing Commander. An Amiga
version of Ultima VI had already been
planned, and the advent of CDTV
most likely means we'll see that soon-
er than we would have otherwise.
Wing Commander, Origin's spectacu-

&.28 COMPUTE

D E C E M B E

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JUST FOR FUN

lar space game, had not even been on
tap for an Amiga conversion, so the
CDTV player can be thanked for this
bonus. These are likely to fall into the
first-wave category, with both tenta-
tively set for release in the fall of 1 991 .
And you can expect more. Greg Ma-
lone, who wrote Origin's Moebius and
WindWalker, says, "The kind of fan-
tasy worlds we create are well suited
for CDTV, which gives us the room
we need for greater detail, vaster envi-
ronments, and a greater range of inter-
active possibilities."

Interplay is another leader in
fantasyland development, and pro-
ducer Troy Worrell says, "We believe
CD-ROM is the future; it's the way
the technology is going." And Battle-
Chess, with better sound and music
and some improved graphics, will be
available on the CDTV player by
Christmas. Dragon Wars, just out for
the Amiga, might be converted next
year. Interplay is also planning games
designed specifically for CDTV,
games that will incorporate digitized
film footage or video instead of com-
puter animation.

Lucasf ilm and Sierra. No an-
nouncements were forthcoming from
Skywalker Ranch, so I can only specu-
late on that company's plans for
CDTV. Its representatives refused to
say a word "until the official press re-
lease is released to the press," a clue
that something is up. First-wave re-
makes of Loom and the Indiana Jones
adventures are likely. But look for
Lucasfilm to exploit a unique advan-
tage it has over other software devel-
opers, the one found in the last
syllable of the company name — film.
With access to so much footage from
the Indy films and other projects,
CDTV is a natural for Lucasfilm;
unlike other companies, it won't have
to spend a fortune shooting live foot-
age to digitize and splice into the
games.

Among the most stalwart sup-
porters of the Amiga this year. Sierra
On-Line has no clear-cut plans for
CDTV. But gonzo PR man Kirk
Greene says the company's policy re-
garding this new format is, "If it's CD-
ROM, we're doing it." With its CD-
ROM versions oi King's Quest Fand
Mixed- Up Mother Goose for MS-DOS
computers, Sierra has practically
paved the way for the format.

Space Quest IV h also being writ-

ten for CD-ROM, though, like the
others, it is for MS-DOS machines.
What Sierra has done with it for MS-
DOS machines is remarkable. Those
cartoon-style graphics seen in previ-
ous animated adventures have been
replaced with cinemagraphics — digi-
tized, Disney-esque scenes painted by
a staff of 60 artists now slaving away
at Sierra's rustic high-rise in the Cali-
fornia mountains that gave the com-
pany its name. They're the closest
thing yet to true interactive movies,
and the characters' lips are even syn-
chronized with their dialogue. Space
Quest IV and King's Quest Kwill ar-
rive for regular Amigas next year, and
a sequel to Hero's Quest is on the way.

Origin's Wing Commandor should be
available for CDTV in the fall of 1 991 .

A NUMBER OF

COMPANIES ARE

WAITING TO SEE IF

ANYONE ACTUALLY

BUYS A CDTV BEFORE

THEY SUPPORT IT

Wait and CDTV, A number of
companies are waiting to see if anyone
actually buys a CDTV before they
support it. Broderbund's Jessica Swit-
zer says, "When we were at CES, it
seemed like a fantastic machine. We
don't have anything for it right now,
but we are looking into it." From an
outside source, I hear Braderbund has
already scheduled an educational
game, and I'm betting it will be a Car-
men Sandiego adventure.

Strategic Simulations is also tak-
ing a wait-and-see approach. It has been

slow to bring the Advanced Dungeons
& Dragons games to the Amiga, prob-
ably because it's relying on UBIsoft in
Europe to do the conversions. Micro-
Prose does Amiga conversions mainly
for Europe and is not planning any-
thing for CDTV. Data East says it will
convert Drakkhen next year.

The voice of doom. The most neg-
ative note has been sounded by for-
mer Amiga supporter Electronic Arts,
whose Stuart Bonn (a vice president
and overall head of development)
says, "We have bigger opportunities
that are more interesting and less
risky. There's no need to rush in."
Those opportunities are cartridge-
based games for the Sega and Nin-
tendo videogame machines, to which
E.A has shifted so much of its talent
and time. (But if videogames are so
hot, why is Nolan Bushnell, godfather
of the Atari 2600 machine, working
with Commodore on CDTV?)

Electronic Arts is not only ignor-
ing CDTV but has also dropped all
development for the Amiga, C-64,
and Apple II computers. It's going to
be an MS-DOS and videogame world,
according to its current visions of the
future. [We contacted Electronic Arts
and were assured that Amiga develop-
ment is continuing full-steam, with
over 1 3 new titles and conversions in
the works.— Ed.] Should CDTV score
big this Christmas, however, Bonn
says E.A will "revise our position. We
can respond very quickly." (Didn't
Custer say the same thing right before
riding out for the Little Big Horn?)

Commodore promises. Perhaps
Commodore will follow through
quickly on its promise of a press re-
lease listing the games and other soft-
ware titles scheduled for CDTV. All
the company had to do was get it ap-
proved by two departments and
cleared by legal in three days. As a
veteran Commodore watcher, I know
better than to keep an eye on the mail-
box. But perhaps next month I'll be
able to tell you about even more
games on the way for CDTV.

Maybe we'll even know whether
Commodore actually got the machine
to the stores on schedule. Regardless,
I have at least managed to add a few
more words (CDTV, cinemagraphics,
and Disney-esque) to my spelling
checker, so I can finally shut this thing
down and get back to playing games
instead oftalking about them. H

DECEMBER 1990 COMPUTE A-29

ART GALLERY

AFRICAN GIRL

Dan Bradford

Baltimore, MD

This unique combination of digitized images and freehand art was created on

a 3MB Amiga 500 with the help of Newtek's Digi-View digitizer. "Although

the images are complete in themselves," says artist Dan Bradford, "I often

use these types of compositions in large paintings."

A-30 COMPUTE DECEMBER 1990

PUSHPIN

Mike Malloy

North Hollywood, CA

Pushpin was created on a 3IVIB Amiga
500 armed with a 20MB Supra hard
drive. To create the three-dimensional
pin, pencil, and paper, Mr. Malloy used
Sculpt 4'D. The text was then created
and turned perspectively using Deluxe-
Paint III, and the entire picture was
brought together in Photon Paint 2.0
using 320 X 400 HAM mode.

SUFI DANCER

Charles Morpheus

Bedford, TX

Suti Dancer was drawn using Photon
Paint 2.0. Regarding the picture's
name, Charles Morpheus admits,
"Sufi Dancer Is really called . . . and
we lost ourselves in the dance, but
that wouldn't fit In the Amiga's string
gadget." Mr. Morpheus Is an artist of
the Invisible College, a small multi-
media co-op whose goals include the
integration of video, music, hermetic
philosophy, quantum theory, and
brainwave entertainment.

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DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE A-3t

TAKING SIDES

R H E T T

ANDERSON

V s

RANDY THOMPSON

OUCH! It all started with IBM. Decades ago, when you
bought a mainframe computer from IBM, Big Blue set up
the computer, maintained and serviced it, and wrote your
software. At the time, a computer cost so much that soft-
ware expenses were a drop in the bucket. People got used
to the idea that software was cheap and hardware was ex-
pensive. That's not true any more. Hardware prices have
gone down, and software prices have gone up.

Software must stand up to ever-
growing standards. It costs a lot of
money to produce a commercial pro-
gram. The days of photocopied docu-
mentation and plastic-bag packaging
are over. The Amiga market is small
enough that every software developer
is taking a risk when he or she puts half
of a year (or more) into a single prod-
uct. It must be disheartening when the
developer finally ships the product
and then sees three or four "clones" of
the program show up within a matter
of weeks.

Granted, these derivative prod-
ucts may not always be as slick or
useful as the original, but when a com-
puter user has a chance to download
RGB Exchange for free or to buy
ImageLink for $199.95, it's clear that
ImageLink is going to lose some of its
potential customers.

Where did all this shareware
come from? The Amiga took a long
lime to grow into a healthy market. Publishers found out
that they couldn't make much money in the Amiga mar-
ket, so they abandoned it. Desperate Amiga owners could
find software only by downloading it from bulletin boards
and by copying club disks and Fred Fish PD disks. Amiga
owners ended up with an astounding number of modems.

On the Amiga, shareware and public domain soft-
ware have run amuck. That's not to say that there's no
place for these programs. The problem is that they're
enough of a force (along with software piracy) to hurt the
commercial software market.

Obviously, I can't blame the programmers who take
their time out to produce this software for the benefit of
all Amiga owners. I don't have a solution to the problem.
But that doesn't mean it's not a problem. It is^ust ask
your friendly neighborhood software developer.

Looking over at Mr. Thompson's side, I read that
shareware is "try before you buy" software. It's more like
"use instead of buying" software. Amiga owners are used
to getting their software for free. That devalues the work
of programmers and promotes piracy. You see, with
shareware, both the user and the programmer lose out.
Maybe that's why the Amiga's biggest problem is software.

COULD
SHAREWARE BE

DON'T BE RIDICULOUS! When the Amiga first came out,
something interesting happened. People wrote software.

I'm not talking about big corporations creating com-
mercial programs that sold for half your paycheck. These
were real computer enthusiasts, like you and me, who saw
the Amiga's potential and wrote software for the computer
because they wanted to. .And instead of selling their pro-
grams to the highest bidder, many Amiga programmers
uploaded their work to telecommuni-
cations networks and distributed disks
through user groups. These programs,
referred to as public domain and
shareware, were either given away or
sold for a nominal charge.

As hard as it is for a non-MS-
DOS computer to make it in today's
marketplace, the contribution made
by public domain and shareware au-
thors went a long way to help sell the
Amiga. No one wants to buy a com-
puter that doesn't have any software,
and thanks to the grass-roots support
of early Amiga programmers, the
Amiga had (and has) plenty.

The Amiga is older now, and
things have changed. Many commer-
cial software companies are support-
ing the Amiga, and lack of software
isn't that big of an issue. But share-
ware is still strong and still important.

Shareware, which works on the
honor system (you use the program
for a while, and if you like it, you send the author the re-
quested donation), provides Amiga users with the unique
opportunity to "try before you buy" — something we can
all appreciate.

In the shareware system, both the user and the pro-
grammer win. The user can obtain software for just a few
dollars, and the programmer has an inexpensive means of
distributing and selling his or her software without releas-
ing all rights to a commercial distributor.

Best of all, shareware software keeps commercial de-
velopers on their toes. It gives them a bit of competition,
forcing manufacturers to sell truly commercial-quality
programs instead of quick-and-dirty hacks. In effect, this
mild competition has raised the quality of Amiga pro-
grams, and in my opinion, that's good.

Looking over at Mr. Anderson's side, he once again
displays his uncanny knack at finding something wrong
with everj'thing. Yes, some commercial software sales are
hurt (albeit minimally) by shareware clones, but commer-
cial software — with its dealer distribution channels and
magazine advertisements — clearly has the upper hand in
the sales race. As with life, shareware may have its prob-
lems, but it's definitely not hurting the .Amiga. H

A-32 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

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64/128 VIEW

TOM

N E T S E L

was the night before Christmas,
when all through the house
Every creature was stirring with
joystick or mouse.

The 1541 was humming, but its speed was a bore;

I knew by the wait it had to be a Commodore.

The kids were all snuggled by the monitor's bright glow
While multicolored sprites danced to and fro.
I'd just settled down for a long winter's nap,
Waiting for Rambo to load and some bad guys to zap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I glanced at my drive to see what was the matter.
I could tell by the glare of its steady red light
It was still sending data; at least it was all right.

I ran to the window, banged my head on the sash
(The kids continued to play and ignored the loud crash).
When what to my watering eyes did appear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver who handled his team

As lively and smoothly as machine language routine.

Though they looped through the heavens, he was never

space sick,

Yet I get quite queasy just debugging BASIC.

His eyes — how they twinkled; his waist was not slim.
For a moment he reminded me of a Butterfield named Jim.
He shouldered his pack, though it was quite a chore,
Then trod 'cross my lawn and burst open the door.

I gasped in amazement (he no doubt thought me a jerk),
But he ignored us completely and went straight to his work.
He placed gifts 'neath our tree after clearing a place;
The kids — paying him no heed — blasted aliens from space.

He brought Bard's Tale, and Krynn, Seven Cities of Gold —

Great software titles, both new ones and old.

There was SuperBase and EasyScript, and what did I

detect?

There was even a hard drive from the folks at Xetec!

He unpacked extra RAM, CPUs, and such things.
Plus a mysterious black box that made my floppy drive zing.
Then a wrapped gift he handed me; it wasn't a weighty one,
But I knew in a moment 'twas a new 1581!

Modems and monitors he pulled out of his sack

And even a plotter I made him take back.

But one gift he gave me I couldn't dispute:

A lifetime subscription to the revamped COMPUTE.

The jolly elf chuckled as he made for the door.
But he stopped, turned, and asked if there was any-
thing more.

I booted up SpeedScripl on my wife's 128
And dashed off a missive, praying I wasn't too late.

Though it's scratched, dinged, and dented, and sometimes

quite slow.

My 64' s a delight that others should know.

'Twould be such a pity to walk into a store.

Only to be told, "It's not made anymore."

So before Santa left on this magical night,

I pressed a note in his hand and squeezed it real tight.

"Take this message to Commodore in West Chester, PA.

It says, 'Keep the 64s coming, guys, at least through next

May.'"

"Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!"
Up to the garage-top the coursers did loop
And turned a neat figure eight past our basketball hoop.

As they flew to the north past my satellite dish,
I was hoping that Commodore would grant my last wish.
But even if it didn't, I was still brimming with cheer
Because finally tonight I'd learned the names of those deer.

Rambo was still loading on my old 64

As I reentered the house and closed the front door.

A carol was playing on our stereo SID,

And the kids were apologizing for something they did.

I went to the window and gazed into the night.

But something caught my attention and gave me a fright.

Santa's last gift rested there on the sill.

I opened it up; 'twas a credit card bill.

AiV<-

If Clement C. Moore had access to a 64 and a good word
processor, no telling how "A Visit from St. Nicholaus"
might have turned out. Happy holidays and my appologies

to Mr. Moore. q

DECEMBER J990 COMPUTE 0-1

NEWS & NOTES

Not

Dead

Yet

Upon hearing a rumor that he
was dead, Mark Twain once
quipped.'The reports of my
death are greatly exaggerated."
Similar rumors abound about the
demise of the 64, and they've
been circulating throughout user
groups across the country and in
their newsletters. In order to seek
out the truth, Gazette contacted
Charles Russell, Commodore's
national marketing manager for
consumer electronics, and put the
question to him. His answer was
almost as succinct as Twain's:
"The 64 is in production and still
going as usual."
TOM NETSEL

Meanwhile,
Back in the
Dungeon

Dragons of Flame is the most
recent release for the Commo-
dore 64/1 28 from Strategic
Simulations.

The second Advanced Dun-
geons & Dragons action game to
take place in TSR's Dragonlance
game world, Dragons of Flame
($19.95) challenges you to save
the world of Krynn from Takhisis,
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LIZ CASEY

A Little Help
from Our Friends

A further indication that there's still life in the 64 is a new service Com-
modore has announced for Its 8-bit computer.

Commodore Express, a Commodore/Federal Express joint ven-
ture, offers a 24-hour toll-free "helpline" and door-to-door customer
service for owners of the 64 and Commodore's MS-DOS-compatible
Select Edition computers. This protection service was introduced
earlier in the year for Amiga 500 owners.

Commodore Express is part of a new customer service package
designed with the home computer user in mind. It offers free pick-up
and return delivery for in-wanranty repairs, plus free telephone assis-
tance to help users set up and operate their computers. The Commo-
dore Express contact number is (800) 448-9987.

According to Tom Kilcoyne, Commodore's director of consumer
marketing, in the first tvwi months of the program, 75 percent of the in-
coming calls were serviceable over the telephone, and the average
turnaround time on Federal Express pick-up/delivery has been 48 hours.

TOM NETSEL

''-' The Magician, by

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THREE GERMAN IMPORTS— A HAND-
HELD SCANNER, A DESKTOP PUBLISHING
CARTRIDGE, AND A CHARACTER
EDITOR— MAY CHANGE YOUR MIND
ABOUT DESKTOP PUBLISHING ON THE 64.

esktop publishing and the 64? Anyone who has per-
formed professional-level desktop publishing could be
excused for doing a double-take. The fact is that the 64
only has one drawback when it comes to placing graph-
ics and formatted text on paper its severely restricted memory.

In the days when the 64 was first introduced, memory
was not a problem. Most programs were text-based and
RAM-frugal. New users were grateful to have any graphics
capability at all. A lack of memory is the root cause of much
of what is good and bad about the 64. On the one hand, there
isn't much room for storing data and code when they aren't
in use, which means that they must reside on disk. On the
other hand, tight memory restrictions make programmers
more efficient. Sloppy programmers don't last long in the
Commodore arena. They quickly move on to the world of
the PC, whre owners are programmed to add megabytes of
memory at a whim. The 64 has no space to waste. >

ROBERT BIXBY

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE G-r

While the memory continues to
be a roadblock, the processor is a good
one. Most people unfamiliar with the
Commodore 8-bit line have missed
out on the fact that the 6510 is actual-
ly a very capable chip.

One solution to the RAM prob-
lem is geoRAM, which was reviewed
in these pages about a year ago.
Scanntronik's Pagefox, a desktop pub-
lishing package newly imported from
Germany, takes a similar approach by
providing an additional lOOK of
RAM for its own use. Pagefox avoids
yet another of the 64's drawbacks by
coming etched in the ROM of the
same cartridge that contains the ex-
panded memory. This avoids the ne-
cessity of loading the program from
the escargotesque Commodore disk
drive.

Pagefox is not a single program,
but like all other desktop publishing
programs, it contains several mod-
ules, including a good monochrome
graphics package, a text editor, and a
formatter that can integrate graphics
and automatically format text into
columns.

A Professional Look

If you're really a fan of desktop pub-
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two other options that have the poten-
tial of making your efforts look pro-
fessional: a hand scanner and a
character editor, known respectively
as Handyscanner 64 and Character
Fox.

A scanner is a device that can im-
port text and graphics directly into a
computer. It's different from a digitiz-
er like ComputerEyes in that it does
not require a camera. It is used pri-
marily for importing two-dimensional
images, while a digitizer can be used
with three-dimensional subjects.

A hand scanner is not used to
scan hands, as one person suggested,
though it could be used for
that. It's called a hand scan-
ner because it's small enough ..
to fit in a person's hand. Most
professional-level scanning ■ ■■ J

units look like photocopiers
or fax machines. They generally
take up a lot of desk space and
scan whole pages at a time. A
hand scanner is about twice as
big as a mouse. It's perfect for
use with the 64 because it will
only scan an image about four
inches wide and a few inches
high — which quickly fills all
available memory in the 64.
Larger images can be scanned
by reducing the scanner's
sensitivity, but these images
are usually unrecognizable.

The hand scanner and
character editor will be dis-

cussed later. For now let's look closely
at Pagefox.

Design a Page

To be blunt, when I sat down with
Pagefox, I didn't find it as intuitive as
geoPublish. but with a little practice, I
found I could accomplish some of the

RVSS THE SCANNER OVER A PHOTO-
GRAPH, CHECK THE RESULTS, AND
THEN PRINT IT.

same tricks while avoiding the over-
head of loading GEOS. Pagefox occu-
pies a middle range between geo-
Publish and Outrageous Pages,
another page-formatting program
that, despite its capabilities, actually
lived up to its name by outraging
many of its users and was quickly
withrawn from the market.

One of the things that made Out-
rageous Pages difficult to use was its
idiosyncratic user interface. Pagefox
also takes a tremendous risk by asking
users to forget everything they know
about operating system interfaces and
start learning a new one. It's more
than some people can bear. In my
opinion, now that GEOS is widely
used, programmers should turn to it
and stop reinventing the wheel. Every
new program shouldn't require
reeducation.

On the other hand, Pagefox
didn't just suddenly appear, as did
Outrageous Pages. The heart of the
program was available in different
German versions known as Phnlfox
and Hi-Eddi, so the designer has had a
chance to shake out the bugs in the
European market. In this latest ver-
sion, the operation is fairly smooth. In
fact, many of my criticisms oi Pagefox
have to do with its incomplete transla-
tion from the German version. This
will be covered later.

Pagefox, true to its name, is
geared for designing the single page.
It's capable of chaining multiple pages
at print time, but each page is discrete.
There's no way to flow text from a
column on one page to a column on
another without creating discrete text
files.

Pagefox contains a complete text
editor, though it can only work with
files of up to 9000 characters. The rea-
son is, as the manual points out,
"More than 9000 characters you
won't get on one page." (The page size
is 640 X 800 pixels — enough to fill a
standard sheet of paper.)

The text editor sports
search-and-replace. The
search-and-replace sup-
ports wildcards, identified
3ls jokers in the manual.
There's no insert mode;
the text editor is locked
permanently in overwrite
mode. The delete key is a
true delete key, like on the
PC. It draws in characters
from the right of the cursor
and deletes them. The f7
key is used as a backspace/
delete key, erasing charac-
ters from the cursor to
the left.

Pagefox also features
a Caps Lock key similar
to that found on the PC

G-8 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

continued on page G-S
keyboard. The program accepts im-
ported text in ASCII, PetASCII, and
screen code format as used by Speed-
Script. If your word processor sup-
ports any of these formats, you won't
need to use Pagefox's text editor for
your text.

The program provides good-look-
ing close quotation marks ("), but it has
no way to enter open quotation marks
("). Where you might expect to find
open quotation marks, you will find
close ones lowered to the baseline.

Pagefox can do some limited hy-
phenation, though the manual is un-
clear on this point. Evidently, if you
want a hyphen to appear in the mid-
dle of a word, you must capitalize the
letter before which the hyphen may
fall. When the word is printed out, the
capitalization is removed and, if the
word falls in the hyphenation range at
the right margin, it will be broken ac-
cording to your wishes. There is an-
other method, using a dictionary-style
hyphenation and embedded codes,
that doesn't appear to be as reliable as
inserting capital letters at paragraph
breaks. The manual states in more
than one place that the automatic hy-
phenation is based on German gram-
mar, so if you happen to be writing in
some other language, hyphenation (or
"syllabification") may not work.

Translate That Again

To do the program justice, the manual
needs to be translated into real Eng-
lish instead of the pidgin English in
which the German translator left it:
"But even with all these simplifica-
tions you won't be able to control
whithin [sic] minutes such a complex
and effecient [sic] program like the
Pagefox. Especially as a beginner for
DTP you will need a few hours time
to become well acquainted with the
different program parts, before you
are able to print out your first preten-
tious work."

Any of us who have read the in-
structions provided with Pacific Rim
stereos, watches, and calculators can
follow the meaning of this kind of
text, though the awkwardness and id-
iosyncrasies of the translation will
probably make the user smile for a
while. Then, the user begins to go
crazy. The effect of reading page after
page of text that ignores syntax and is
ignorant of the English idiom is like
having your skull half-fiill of ginger ale.

Desktop pubhshing is so compli-
cated, even at its simplest, that a
friendly, lucid manual is a minimum
requirement. (That's another reason
for my preference for geoPubiish.) In
the words of the manual, "This is es-
pecially with the C 64 are not so
easy. . . ."

0-10 COMPUTE

A Foxy Editor

Character Fox is a character/font edi-
tor. It contains an editing field famil-
iar to those who have worked with
sprite and character editors. Its man-
ual is written in an interesting way:
The author takes on the persona of
the program, explaining its actions as
if they were his own.

Character Fox can work with im-
ages scanned with the hand scanner
(described below), allowing you to im-

port text from a book, magazine, or
clip-art collection, modifying it into
your own typeface. This one capabili-
ty is enough to recommend it. I only
wish the creator of these programs
had made them GEOS-compatible so
the fonts would be applicable beyond
the worid o^ Pagefox.

Handyscanner 64

As mentioned earlier, scanning is a
method for bringing real-world art
and text directly into the computer.
There are three basic types of scan-
ning equipment: a flat-bed scanner
that resembles a photocopy machine,
a page-fed scanner that resembles a
fax machine, and a hand-scanner that
resembles a mouse with a severe thy-
roid condition.

The Handyscanner 64 allows you
to scan small images. It operates with
software that closely resembles the
graphics part oi Pagefox. The scanner
itself emits a greenish light from a
bank of LEDs (Light-Emitting Di-
odes). When you press the scan but-
ton on top of the scanner, the lights
become a little brighter. Since these
LEDs would represent a significant
power drain on a 64's power supply,
the scanner comes with its own power
transformer. The scanner attaches to
the user port of the 64 with a small
interface device, into which you
also plug the power cord from the
transformer.

With the power cords from your
computer, disk drive, monitor, print-
er, and hand scanner, you should
think seriously about investing in a
multioutlet surge-protector power
strip, if not rewiring your computer
room to provide a dozen outlets at
your desk.

The scanner can be set to scan in
pure black-and-white with no attempt
at shading, or to provide one of three

levels of dithered shading. Dithering
is a technique of approximating a
shade of gray by placing random dots
in the area. A darker area has more
dots; a brighter area, fewer dots.

In addition, Handyscanner pro-
vides you with separate brightness
and contrast adjustments. Unlike
many hand scanners, the scanner it-
self offers no dot-per-inch setting.
This is set through the software. You
can set any sensitivity between 33 and
300 dots per inch (dpi), but any sensi-
tivity less than 200 dpi will provide a
very poor scan.

The Handyscanner provides a
simple, handy way to import real-
world images into the 64. 1 was skepti-
cal that the Commodore's graphics
capabilities were up to handling
scanned images. I work a great deal
with scanned images on the PC. They
take up a lot of disk space and are
time-consuming to manipulate. Fur-
thermore, a hand scanner is tricky;
you have to pull it down the page at a
perfectly uniform speed and in a per-
fectly straight line to prevent distor-
tion. To my surprise, Handyscanner
provided consistently good scans de-
spite my shaky hands and a sticky
scanning surface. The hardware must
cope with minor inconsistencies bet-
ter than the Logitech scanner I am ac-
customed to using.

The software associated with the
Handyscanner compresses the images
efficiently, although interpreting the
scanned image and bringing it up on
the screen take several seconds.

Conclusions

When I bought my 64, my plan was to
use its graphics and text-editing abili-
ties to save myself the labor of end-
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Other, better, alternatives exist in
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far as I know, only one scanning alter-
native is available for the 64 — the
Handyscanner — and, since it only
works with Pagefox and Character
Fox, it makes these products worth
having as adjuncts to its power, q

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Circle Reader Service Number 118

D

ROGRAMMER'S PAGE

RANDY THOMPSON

This month I've compiled some
reader tips that are sure to catch
your attention, I hke to call them
dazzlers because of their flashy,
graphic appeal. Try a few and see
what you think.

Flash!

After running the following program,
all shifted characters displayed on the
64's screen flash wildly. By taking ad-
vantage of the computer's extended
color background mode, this machine
language routine toggles the charac-
ters' background colors, making the
letters appear to flicker and glow.

FOR 1=679 TO 758:READ D

:P0KE I, D: NEXT

SYS 679:P0KE 251,l:POKE
252,6:POKE 253,3 :POKE
53281, 0:POKE 53280, G

POKE 53233,15

PRrNT"{CLR}WITH THIS PR

OGRAM ANY (YEL)SHIFTSD

{CYN} CHARACTERS""

PRINT" {11 SPACESlARE HI

GHLIGHTED"

REM POKE 251, SPEED OF F

LASH

REM POKE 252, COLOR 1

REM POKE 253, COLOR 2

DATA 120,169,192,141,20

,3,169,2,141,21,3,173,1

7,208,9,64

DATA 141,17,208,169,0,1

33,162,88,96,165,162,19

7,251,243,3,76

DATA 49,234,173,252,3,2

01,1,240,4,201,2,240,17

,165,252,141

DATA 34,208,169,2,141,2

52,3,169,0,133,162,24,1

44,225,165,253

DATA 141,34,208,169,1,1

41,232,3,169,0,133,162,

24,144,208,2

MQ

100

PB

110

XF

120

BE

130

JJ

140

BD

150

KB

160

QG

170

HK

180

PS

190

SB

200

FJ

210

SC 22C

You can change the speed at
which the letters flash by POKEing a
value 0-255 into memory location

251 after running the program. The
lower the value, the faster the charac-
ters flash — except in the case of the
value 0, which is the slowest setting
possible (1 is the fastest).

To change the background color
of the flashing characters, POKE two
different color values into locations

252 and 253. The machine language

routine will alternate between these
two colors to create the flashing effect.

You can easily disable the flash-
ing by turning off extended back-
ground color mode. Turn il off with
POKE 53265,PEEK(53265) AND
191 . If you want the effect to run
again, turn it back on with POKE
53265,PEEK (53265) OR 64.

JOELSUDQUIST
STERLING HEIGHTS, Ml

Screen Scrambler

Here's a routine that scrambles and
then clears your computer screen. It
works by decreasing the value of each

character's screen code until all of the
characters turn into spaces. It's an
eye-catching way to remove infor-
mation from the screen, and it works
with the 64 and the 1 28 in 40-column
mode.

MS 10 AD=4864

QQ 20 FOR 1=0 TO 49:READ D:P0K

E AD+I ,D:NEXT
GS 30 DATA 169,4,133,251,160,0

,132,250
FJ 40 DATA 132,252,177,250,201

,32,240,15
AX 50 DATA 162,1,134,252,201,0

,208,2
QC 60 DATA 169,33,170,202,138,

145,250,230
KO 70 DATA 250,208,231,230,251

,165,251,201
KF 80 DATA 8,208,223,165,252,2

01,0,208
QH 90 DATA 207,96

After you've run the program, ex-
ecute SYS 4864 to clear the screen.
For the best results, get a bunch of
characters on the screen first. For such
a simple concept, the effect is really
quite impressive.

By default, this program stores its
screen-clearing machine language rou-
tine in memory at 4864-4913, By
changing the value assigned to AD in
line 1 0, you can move the routine to
any 50-byte area of free memory. Just
remember to change your SYS state-
ments to reflect this change. For ex-
ample, if you move the routine into
the 64's cassette buffer located at 828,
you must enter SYS 828 to invoke the
screen scrambler.

STACY OLIVAS
GRAHAM. V/.\

128 Screen Split

For an interesting example of scrolling
the 128's split graphics screen, type in
and run the following demo program.
Don't clear the graphics screen before
you run the program. In fact, it's best
if you turn the computer off and then
on again before entering the listing.

PH 10 GRAPHIC 2,0,0

EB 20 FOR 1=43 TO 249

QS 30 POKE 2612,1

QG 40 NEXT

.'^R 50 FOR 1 = 249 TO 48 STEP -1

QA 60 POKE 2612,1

RJ 70 NEXT

QF 80 GOTO 20

This program opens a hi-res
graphics screen and smoothly scrolls it
down over the text screen and back up
again. It does this by altering memory
location 2612. This location holds the
raster number used by the interrupt
routine that controls the GRAPHIC 2
and GRAPHIC 4 split screen.

STEVE SCHOWIAK
GlESSEN. WEST GERMANY

"Programmer's Page" is interested in
your programming lips and tricks.
Send all submissions to Programmer's
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Happy holidays! In the past few
months, we sharpened our
BASIC skills with a program that
demonstrated how to create and
control a sprite, or Movable Object
Block. The 64 is not restricted to a sin-
gle sprite, however; it can simulta-
neously maneuver up to eight sprites
in BASIC.

When dealing with more than
one sprite, things get a bit more com-
plicated. Before we actually create
some sprites in shapes thai are appro-
priate for the season, here's what we
have to do:

• Create shape data for the sprites.

• Tell the computer where to look for
the data.

• Locate the sprites horizontally and
vertically.

• Determine their sizes.

• Assign them one or more colors.

• Turn them on.

Last month's program contained
63 pieces of data which defined our
single sprite's shape. For each addi-
tional sprite shape, 63 more pieces of
data are required to be POKEd into
memory registers.

In addition, you must tell the
computer where to look for the data.
Memory registers 2040-2047 are the
eight sprite data pointers; they tell the
computer in which memory registers
the sprite shape data can be found.

When we located sprite O's shape-
defining data from 12288 to 12350.
we POKEd 2040 with 192. The sprite
data pointers and their corresponding
data locations are detailed below.

Sprite Data Pointer Value Data At

0

2040

192

I228S-12350

1

2041

193

12352-12414

2

2042

194

12416-12478

3

2043

195

12480-12542

4

2044

196

12544-12606

5

2045

197

12608-12670

6

2046

198

12672-12734

7

2047

199

12736-12798

er. If you want, say, sprite 7 to have
the same shape as sprite 0, you would
POKE 2047 with 192.

When you're working with three
sprites or fewer, there are other popu-
lar locations in which to put sprite
shape data. When you use them, the
same pointers are used, but different
values are POKEd there.

Sprite Data Pointer Value Data At

0 2040 13 832-894

1 2041 14 896-958

2 2042 15 960-1022

Each sprite doesn't need unique
data; one may share the data of anoth-

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MULTPLESPRTES

This month we'll begin a short
program for the 64 that should give
you an understanding of how to han-
dle more than one sprite. Be sure to
save lines 10-90 because we'll add to
them next month. First clear the
screen and color the screen white:

10 PRINTCHR$(147):POKE53280,
l:POKE53281,l

Next, because we'll use sound
with our sprites (since the 64 is so mu-
sically gifted. I almost always include
sound in my programs), we must clear
the sound-producing chip and set the

maximum volume, envelope, and a
frequency for voice 3. These have
been discussed in previous columns.

20 FORT=54272T054295:POKET,

0;NEXT:POKE54296,15
30 POKE54277,8:POKE54278,255:

POKE54287,3

Read in the sprite shape data:

40 FORJ = 12288TO12350;READD:

POKEJ,D:NEXT
50DATAO,16,0,0,0,0,0,16,0,0,56,OA

1 24,0,0,254,0,0,56,0,0, 1 24,0,0,254,

0, ,255
60 DATA0,3,255,128,0,254,0,

1,255,0,3,255,1 28,7,255, 192,1 5,

255,224,0,56,0, ,56
70 DATAO,0,254,0,0,0,0,

0,0,0

Because we're using only one
sprite shape (1 won't tell you what it is
yet), we can point all eight data point-
ers to the same data {from 12288 to
12350).

80 FORT-2040TO2047;POKET,
192:NEXT

Define constants:

90 V = 53248:X = 1 57:V = 1 29:K -« 255:
V1=54276:VF=54273;M=79

V is the important first memory regis-
ter of the 64's sprite-controlling chip.
Many other registers will be addressed
as an offset of V. X and Y are the
starting horizontal and vertical coor-
dinates for all eight sprites. VI and VF
are voice 1 's control and high-
frequency registers, respectively.

We'll stop here for this month.
Next month I'll explain M and K and
finish the program.

Now, you may recall that way
back in March I challenged you to
send me some examples of programs
that use NOT. Thinking that the mail-
box wouldn't yield many responses, I
shrugged off NOT as a keyword of
minimal interest.

I was wrong. Apparently, there

«S-14 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

BEGINNER BASIC

are those of you who actually use NOT in your BASIC
programming. Several people wrote to explain how they
use the NOT statement in various ways. Thanks for the
feedback, which I always welcome.

Walt Schumacher, a computer teacher at St. Ferdi-
nand School in Florissant, Missouri, sent in perhaps the
clearest and best documented use of the NOT logical oper-
ator. He writes:

"My use of NOT stems from seeing its real-world
analogy: the ON/ OFF push button. To utilize this func-
tion, one must be aware that on Commodore machines, 0
stands for false, and - 1 stands for true. I used this feature
recently to toggle between upper- and lowercase for a key-
board practice program."

Here's a slightly revised version of Walt's program.

10 BIG =0:CASE= 53272: UP=21:DOWN'»23

20 PRINT CHR$(147)

30 FOR T=l TO 11:PRINT:NEXT

40 PRINT TAB(10)"WATCH THIS MESSAGE!

ISO BIG=Nar BIG:REM TOGGLE

160 IF BIG THEN POKE CASE, UP

170 IF NOT BIG THEN POKE CASE, DOWN

180 FOR DELAV = 1 TO 400:NEXT

190 GOTO 150

Line 10 defines the variable BIG and the constants
CASE, UP, and DOWN. In the 64 and 128, memory regis-
ter 53272 controls, among other things, whether your
monitor or TV screen displays upper- or lowercase letter-
ing. POKEing 2 1 (UP) or 23 (DOWN) to that register de-
termines whether the computer prints in upper- or
lowercase, respectively.

Lines 20-40 clear the screen, center the cursor verti-
cally on the screen, and print a message.

Line 150 contains the ON/OFF toggle switch. BIG
takes turns having the value 0 or - 1 . If BIG is 0, for in-
stance, NOT BIG changes it to — I, and vice versa.

Lines 160 and 170 evaluate BIG and alternately POKE
53272 with either 21 or 23. If BIG =0, the message switch-
es to lowercase; if BIG = — I, the message switches to up-
percase. Thanks, Walt, for shedding more light on NOT. Q

m^ Support
research.

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FRED

D ' I G N A Z I O

Eight years ago I wrote a column
in COMPUTE! magazine detail-
ing how people could program
their own "computer friends"
inside their home computers. A com-
puter friend was a program written in
BASIC. When the program began run-
ning, the friend would come to life in-
side your computer and have a
conversation with you. You could
name the friend, teach it your name,
and give it personality traits, special
interests, and lovable quirks. You
could even program the friend to tell
your favorite jokes.

The idea for a computer friend
came from my habit of naming my
cars. Over the years I have gone
through several cars, each with its
own name (like George, Eric the Or-
ange, Mishy Kiku, and Peppy) and
each with its unique personality. I be-
gan thinking that if cars could have
names and personalities, then so
could computers. You can decorate
your car and give it a personality all
its own, so you should be able to pro-
gram a computer to act as your friend.

I was also inspired by a famous
artificial intelligence (AI) program
called Eliza written by MIT computer
scientist Joseph Weizenbaum. When
you sat down at the computer, Eliza
would act like a psychoanalyst trying
to get to know a new patient. The ses-
sion would start with Eliza 's asking
you some friendly questions, such as
What is your name? and Do you have
any brothers or sisters?

You would type in answers, and
Eliza'^ questions would start getting
more and more personal. Before you
knew it, you would be telling "her" all
sorts of extremely private things, such
as how you felt about your mother
and father, if you had ever been mean
to your cat, and other secrets. Even
world-famous computer scientists
would sit down and begin chatting
with Eliza, telling her embarrassing
personal tidbits that they wouldn't
dare share with another human being.

In my column I challenged
COMPUTE!'^ readers to invent their
own computer friends. The readers'

response was unbelievable. I received
hundreds of letters and over five doz-
en disks in the mail, each with its own
customized "Friend" program written
in BASIC and each with its own spe-
cial design. Many of the programs
printed out a picture of the computer
friend. Some of the computer friends
were good at reciting poetry, puns,
and odd bits of trivia. Others had a
special knowledge of comic-book he-
roes, offbeat movies, science-fiction
books, and rock music.

Each time I ran one of the read-
ers' friend programs, I felt I was meet-
ing a new person, and in a funny way I
knew that the friend was a reflection

of the human who invented it (just as
my cars were a fun house-mirror re-
flection of me). I came to think of the
computer friends as if they were side-
kicks of their inventors, like the dum-
my Charlie McCarthy and his creator
Edgar Bergen or Kermit the Frog and
Jim Henson.

I wrote several columns featuring
many of the best computer friends
that readers sent in. Interest in com-
puter friends was high for many
months, but eventually it faded.

Recently a new type of computer
friend has become popular. These
new friends are called agents. An
agent is a program, as the computer
friend was. Its job is to "live" inside
your computer. Whenever the com-
puter is turned on, the computer agent
does special chores for you.

What chores does an agent do? It
can automatically sign onto your on-
line information services and bulletin
boards and assemble a personalized
electronic newspaper for you out of
news stories and data it has collected
overnight, concerning topics especial-
ly interesting to you. It can print out
this newspaper, and you can read it at
the breakfast table before you leave
for school or work.

What else can an agent do? If
your computer were wired into some
household appliances, your agent
could do things like shut the house
lights off and on when you wanted,
start coffee brewing in the morning, or
turn on the VCR and TV whenever
your favorite program came on. It
could play your stereo system, print
out messages to remind you of your
best friends' birthdays, and even play
games with you.

Thanks to the growing popularity
of agents, it's time to take another
look at computer friends. What kind
of agent or friend would you invent?
Would your agent have human char-
acteristics, or would it resemble an an-
imal, a robot, an alien, or something
completely different? What sorts of
tasks would you assign to your agent?
What machines would it control for
you? Would your agent have a name?
A fictitious past? Some favorite com-
puter jokes? Would your agent be reli-
able and trustworthy? Or fickle and
unpredictable? Would it be fun-loving
and a practical joker or an awful nag?

Please send me your ideas. I'll
gather a few of the best ideas and pub-
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umns. Mail your letter to Fred
D'Ignazio, COMPUTE Publications,
324 West Wendover Avenue, Greens-
boro, North Carolina 27408.

Meanwhile, be on the lookout for
real computer agents living inside
your machine. According to software
publishers, agents will be designed
into most of the new computer pro-
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ACHINE LANGUAGE

J I M

BUTTERF1ELD

In its favor, the Commodore 128
comes with a built-in machine
language monitor (MLM) with
many attractive features. If a
program crashes, just hold down the
Run key and press the reset button.
The computer will recover into the
MLM so vou can investigate the cause
of the problem. The BASIC SYS com-
mand allows values to be preset for
the A, X, Y, and status registers.
BLO.AD and BS.AVE are big B.ASIC
improvements.

On the negative side. 128 BASIC
can relocate. Also, special code and
new system calls are needed to reach
data or a subroutine across banks. The
interrupt has so many jobs — such as
graphics, animation, and sound — that
it's easy for new code to conflict with
built-in operations.

The bank system makes it hard to
put code higher than location $3FFF.
Beginners are advised to place ML
programs below $4000 and stay in
bank 1 5. That way, you can SYS to
the ML program from BASIC and use
a JSR to call subroutines in the
Kernal.

What happens if you try to put
code at higher addresses? Suppose you
wish to locate a program at $6000.
The trouble is that, if BASIC stays in
its normal bank 1 5 state, a call to
S6000 (SYS 24576) wouldn't take
your program to RAM but to the
overlaying ROM containing the
B.ASIC interpreter. Bank 1 5 config-
ures RAM from $0000 to $3FFF,
ROM from $4000 to SCFFF, 1/0
chips from $D000 to SDFFF. and
ROM from SEOOO to $FFFF. The
program at $6000 wouldn't be
visible.

The obvious solution — enter the
command BANK 0 before the SYS
call — usually ends in disaster. The
SYS gets to your program, but when
your program calls a Kernal routine
such as BSOUT at $FFD2 for print-
ing, the ROM's gone! Instead, the pro-
gram arrives at empty RAM in Bank
0 and gets lost. Even if you somehow
transfer valid program code into that
area, you can't achieve output since

the I/O chips are no longer accessible.

What you need is a configuration
that will give vou R.AM from $0000 to
SBFFF, Kernal ROM from $C000 to
SCFFF and $£000 to $FFFF, and I/O
chips in the $DD00 to SDFFF slot. No
bank number gives you this; bank 12
is sometimes used to produce a simi-
lar effect, but it's not the best way.

You can produce the desired con-
figuration by a direct store to address
SFFOO; a value of decimal 14 stored
there will do the job. But you can't do
that from BASIC. That powerful
POKE to address SFFOO would make
the BASIC interpreter itself disappear!

The solution is to use BASIC to
select BANK 0 to make your program
visible so you can SYS to it. Once the
program starts, it puts $0E into ad-
dress SFFOO, reconfiguring to the de-
sired map. It's a good idea to restore
the configuration to Bank 0 just
before the program returns to BASIC,
so BASIC will be there waiting when
control is returned to it, thus prevent-
ing a crash. Bank 0 can be restored by
storing $3F into SFFOO.

Here's a simple 128 program to
print HELLO! to the screen just to
show how a program may be posi-
tioned above the $4000 barrier.
BASIC will have set up BANK 0
before the call to $6000 (the program's
location). The program's first task is
to make sure the Kernal ROM and
I/O chips are accessible.

6000 LDA #$0E ;"special" config

6002 STA SFFOO

6005 LDX #S00

6007 LDA S6018,X

600A JSR $FFD2

600D INX

600E CPX #S07

6010 BNE S6007

The string HELLO!, followed by
a carriage return, is printed from a
buffer to be established at S6018. Now
restore the original configuration
(bank 0, value $3F in SFFOO).

6012 LDA #$3F ;restore config
6014 STA SFFOO ;C'BANKO")

You return to BASIC with the
RTS command. It seems a little odd
that you can go back to BASIC when
the Bank 0 configuration has switched
out the BASIC interpreter. Don't wor-
ry. The mechanism of the SYS call
takes care of all the bank arrangements.

6017 RTS

The text to be printed (" HELLO")
must be stored in memory.

6018 48 45 4C 4C 4F 21 OD 00

It takes a while to get used to the
architecture of the 128, but with care-
ful planning it all works well.

You could enter the program
using the built-in monitor, but here's
a BASIC program to do the job.

100 DATA 169.14,141,0,255,162,0

110 DATA 189.24,96,32,210,255

120 DATA 232.224,7,208,245

130 DATA 169,63,141,0,255,96

140 DATA 72,69,76,76,79,33,13

150 BANK 0

160 FOR J=24576 TO 24606

170 READ X:T=T+X

180 POKE J,X

190NEXTJ

200 IF T< >3605 THEN STOP

210 BANK 15

300 BANK 0

310 SYS 24576

320 BANK 15 □

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COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

DBACK

QUESTIONS

FROM

OUR

READERS

A Dynamic Loader

Recently, I was going through one of
your back issues and found a program
similar to the one below.

CE 10 POKE 184, 2: POKE 185,0: PO

KE 186,8
KG 20 INPUT "FILENAriE";N$:IFLE

N (NS) M6THEN20
FQ 30 INPUT "STARTING ADDRESS"

;S: IFS<0ORS>65535THEN30
KG 40 POKE 183,LEN(N9) :POKE 18

7,0:POKE 188,2
XK 50 FOR 1=1 TO LEN(N$>:POKE

{SPACE} 511+1 ,ASC(MIO$ (NS

,1,1) ) :NEXT I
XK 60 POKE 780,0:POKE 7ai,S-IN

T (S/256) *256:P0KE 732, IN

T(S/256)
CE 70 SYS 65493: IFST064THENPR

INT"FILE NOT FOUND"

It POKES a few numbers into memo-
ry and then SYSs to an address. When
I run it, it loads a program into a se-
lected memory area.

I've seen programs similar to this
one in other magazines. Could you ex-
plain to me the principles behind this
program and how it might be used?

JERRY HALLETT
STOCKTON. NY

The program uses the Kernal
LOAD routine to load a file begin-
ning at a specific address. The three
POKES in line 10 set the logical file
number, secondary^ address, and de-
vice number as you would for an
OPEN command, (The equivalent
OPEN command would be OPEN
2,8,0.) Lines 20 and 30 request the
filename and the file's starting ad-
dress from the user. The first POKE
in line 40 sets the length of the
filename, and the other two repre-
sent the address (512) of the file-
name in low-byte/high-byte format.
Line 50 actually stores the filename
in locations 512-527.

Line 60 sets the 6502 's registers
to prepare for calling the Kernal
LOAD routine. The first POKE sets
the accumulator to 0 to tell the rou-
tine to perform a load. (Placing a 0
in the accumulator would cause the
routine to verify.) The next two
POKES store the low and high bytes

of the starting address into the X
and Y registers, respectively. Line
70 calls the Kernal routine and then
checks for an error after it has
returned.

You didn 'i mention a save rou-
tine in your letter, but we've includ-
ed one to demonstrate how to call
the Kernai's SAVE routine from
BASIC.

QH la DV = 3: INPUT "FI CENAME" ; NS

:0PEK15,DV,15:0PEN1,DV,1

,N$+",P,W"
JA 20 INPUT*15,EN:IFEN<>0THENP

RINT"DISK ERROR":GOTO70
FQ 30 INPUT "STARTING ADDRESS"

;S:IFS<0ORS>65535THEN30
SR40 INPUT "ENDING ADDRESS";E

:IFE<SORE>6553 5THEN40
KS 50 POKE 193,S-IST (S/256)*25

6:P0KE 194, INT (S/256)
PE 60 POKE 174,E-INT (E/256)*25

6:P0KE X75,INT (E/256) :SY

S62957
KM 70 CL0SE1:CL0SE15

Line 10 inputs the filename
from the user and attempts to open
it. Line 20 checks to see whether the
open was successful. Lines 30 and
40 get the starting and ending ad-
dresses for the file from the user.
Line 50 sets a pointer to the starting
address while line 60 sets the pointer
to the ending address and calls the
routine. Line 70 closes the file after
the save.

Big CPU in tlie SIty

In your recent article "Into the Crystal
Ball" (June 1990), many people
blamed software companies or the
market for the declining interest in the
64. They blamed everything except
what's really wrong. It's hardware, not
software or the market. The main
problem is that the 64 isn't attractive
anymore. The 64 has already died and
gone to the big CPU in the sky.

I've had a 64 for close to ten
years, but it lacks hardware capabili-
ties. It should be taken into the factor)'
and given a total overhaul. When it
comes out, it should have 256K of
ROM, an operating system that takes
up minimal space in memory, a faster

CPU, 64K or 128K of video RAM, a
ramdisk, and a built-in program that
would still let it run conventional 64
software.

It may sound like I have MS-
DOS in mind, but the 64 has to have
some sort of hardware enhancement
and a true operating system.

C.SYMONDS
BECKENHAM. W.A.
AUSTRALIA

No Joy

I am writing out of sheer frustration
regarding your MLX program. I have
tried to enter this program with and
without The. Automatic Proofreader,
and in both instances line 130 gives
no joy. Please help!

It is also noted that The Automat-
ic Proofreader program printed in my
December 1989 Gaze/re is different
from the ones primed after. I have
tried to load both, and only the De-
cember one works. The big question
is, is it me or my overgrown
calculator?

AL,\N C'ULPH
MOOROOLBARK. VIC.
AUSIRALIA

Alan, we checked line 130 of MLX
with several versions of The Auto-
matic Proofreader, and we got the
correct checksum with all of them.
The handwritten sample you pro-
vided was missing an equal sign
after the LS, but we have no way of
knowing whether it was absent from
your typed-in version or not.

Line 130 does contain several
points for possible confusion. Where
it says S$=" ", there is one space
between the quotation marks. It is
typed by pressing the quote key, the
space bar, and then the quote key
again. Where it says T$="{13
RIGHT} ", press the quote key and
then lap the right Crsr key 13 times
before pressing the quote key again.
If you press the space bar 13 times,
the final resuk may be the same but
your checksum will be different. Be
sure to read and familiarize yourself
with the instructions on how to type
in Gazette programs. >

DECEMBER 1990

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It works the same as the earlier ver-
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So It's Your Birthday!

I am 72 and not at all interested in
games, but I'm having trouble with a
program that shouldn't be too compli-
cated for you smart young fellows. I
have a list of 86 names, addresses, and
birthdays from my mailing label pro-
gram, and I'd like a utility to go
through the data and select the names
and birthdays of all the people born in
a particular month. It would be nice
to have it print them to the screen or
printer.

DON SHE-\
LAKECIT^-.FL

Here's a simple program that
should do what you want, Don. It
reads six pieces of information from
data statements about each person.
The first name, last name, address,
phone number, and birth date are
all single items; but notice that the
city, state, and ZIP code are also
listed as one item. For the program
to work properly, make certain that
you have six entries separated by
commas for each data statement.
Use a space if you need to leave an
item blank.

Once you've entered your data
statements, change the value of
MAX in line 10 to equal the number
of names on your list. Our sample
program has only two people; there-
fore, MAX=2. If you have 86
names on your list, then MAX =86.

GM 10 MftX=2:DIM AS (MAX) ,B$ (MAX
) ,C$(MAX) ,DS (MAX), ES (MAX

FEEDBACK

) ,FS(HAX) ,M0S(12)
GE 20 FORX=0TO11:READMO${X) :NE

XT
PK 30 FOE X=0TOMAX-1:READ A$ (X
) ,B$(X) ,CS[X) ,D$(X) ,E$(X
) ,FS(X) :NEXT
FE 40 PRINT"fCLR} fWHT) (3 DOWN)
ENTER MONTH (EXAMPLE :JA
N) "; lINPUT M$
FD 50 IF LEN(M5)>3 THEN 40
MF 50 PBINT"{2 DOWN} PRESS (P)

FOR PRINTER OR "
PQ 70 PR1NT"{7 SPACES} (S) FOR

(SPACE) SCREEN OUTPUT"
ME B0 GET PS: IF P$=""THEN 80
PB 90 FORX=0TO11:IF M$=MOS(X)

(SPACE)THEN 120
MH 100 NEXT
CM 110 GOTO40

KM 120 FOR X=0TOMAX-1:IF LEFTS
(FS(X),3)=MS THEN GOSUB
170
XJ 130 NEXT: PRINT "{2 DOWNj

{RVSlPRESS ANY KEY{0FF}

II

ER 140 GETfiS:IFA$=""THEK 140

CR 150 GOTO40

BG 160 REM ** PRINT ROUTINE **

KB 170 IF P$="P"THEN0PEtl4,4sCH

D4

SX 180 PRINT:PRINT

RJ 190 PRINT"NAME: {2 SPACES}";

A$(X);" ";b$(X)

XD 200 PRINT"AODR: {2 SPACES}";

CS(X)
BK 210 PRINT" {7 SPACES }"; DS (X)
CO 220 PRINT"PHOHE: ";E5(X}
PP 230 PRINT"B'DAY: ";F$(X)
RA 240 IF PS="P"THEN PRINTS4:C

L0SE4
SG 250 RETURN
SX 260 REM ** NAMES **
PC 270 DATA JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MS
Y,JUN,JUL,AUG,SEP,OCT,N
OV,DEC
PF 280 DATA JOHN A.,DOE,RT 1 B
OX 123,SILER CITY NC 27
344, 555-0123, AUG 31
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1 would like to know if you can help
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know if there are any companies out
there that make scanners that are
compatible with the 64. If there are,
I'd like the address or information
about them.

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Put on your armor and sharpen
your sword! The black knight
has stolen the king's crown, and
it's up to you to get it back. It
won't be easy. To solve this intricate
puzzle, you must find your way
through six castles, 16 rooms, and
more than 50 maze screens.

Pick up keys to unlock castles,
but watch out! The black knight is
waiting for you inside one of them.
You must defeat him in order to re-
trieve the crown, but you're not safe
until you slay the dragons.

Getting Started

Crown Quest is written entirely in ma-
chine language, so you'll need to use
MLX, the machine language entry
program, to type it in. See "Typing
Aids" elsewhere in this section. When
MLX prompts you, respond with the
values given below.

Starting address: 0801
Ending address: 2058

When you've finished typing Crown
Quest, be sure to save a copy of the
program before exiting MLX.

Although Crown Quest is written
in machine language, it loads and runs
like a BASIC program. When you're
ready to play, plug a joystick into port
2. Load the program and type RUN.
Crown Quest requires disk access, so
don't remove the disk firom the drive
until you've finished playing.

Playing the Game

In Crown Quest, you're a knight of the
white castle. Your mission is to find
and return the king's crown as quickly
as you can. When you run Crown
Quest, the program will search for a
file on the disk named CQ.TIMES. If
the file isn't there, it will be written
automatically. This file is a record of
the best playing times of people who
have won the game. Once this file has
loaded, the title and the best times are
displayed.

Use the joystick to select one of
four versions of the game. Each ver-
sion uses the same Crown Quest king-

dom, but the objects are located in dif-
ferent places. Game 1 is easiest; game
4, the most difficult.

Play begins with your knight
standing in front of the white castle,
where you must return the crown to
win the game. Control the knight with
the joystick and begin exploring. The
kingdom is connected by a series of
rooms with mazes between them.
Some of the mazes may be simple, but
they can be up to 12 screens large and
have many rooms connected to them.

EXPLORE A VAST

KINGDOM IN THIS

ACTION/ADVENTURE

GAME FOR THE 64.

JOYSTICK REQUIRED,

Somewhere in the kingdom is a
toll bridge. Once you've crossed it,
you enter the realm of the black
knight, which consists of two chal-
lenging mazes, one room, and the
black castle.

There are nine different objects to
collect and use as you play Crown
Quest, These objects appear in the
lower left corner of the screen. You
press the fire button to pick up an ob-
ject, but you may carry only one item
at a time. You may not drop objects
when you're inside a maze. The object
you're currently carrying is displayed
in the text window at the bottom of

the screen. Should you attempt to pick
up an object while you're already car-
rying one, the two will be swapped.

You may find piles of gold worth
either 5 or 10 points. Your gold points
are displayed at the bottom of the
screen. You'll need 50 gold points
before you can pay to cross the black
knight's toll bridge.

Other objects you may find are
castle keys, a sword, a magnet, and the
crown. You cannot enter a castle until
the gate is open. If the gate is closed,
you'll need to find a key that's the
same color as the castle. The one ex-
ception is the white castle. Since it is
already open, you won't need a key to
enter it.

When exploring mazes, you may
come across dragons flying toward
you above the maze. If the dragon hits
you, you'll see a flash of bright light.
You can sustain only two or three hits
in one maze before you're struck
down, penalized two minutes, and
sent back to the white castle. If you
find the sword, you can defend your-
self against the dragon.

The Black Knight's Lair

When you cross the toll bridge, 50
gold points will be taken, and you'll
enter a corridor that leads to the black
knight's kingdom. Once inside the
black casde, you'll come face to face
with the black knight himself He
stands twice as tall as you, giiarding
the entrance to a deep, dark, invisible
maze — his hiding place for the crown.
If you attempt to pass him without a
sword, you'll be struck by his mighty
fist and sent back to the white castle.
Your only hope is to carry your
sword, get a long running start, and
try to strike him down.

Once past the black knight, you
enter the most challenging maze of all.
You're surrounded in darkness, but
suddenly lightning illuminates the
path for an instant. You must find
your way through the maze using only
the lightning as your guide. When you
finally reach the crown, you'll see that
the black knight has hidden it inside
the maze wall. One of the other ob-

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jects in the game can help you take
possession of the crown. I won't tell
you exactly how to get it out of the
wall, but you'll need one of the objects
mentioned earlier.

Winning the Game

When you have the crown, take it
back to the white castle. The king will
congratulate you, and your winning
time will be displayed. Press the fire
button, and the best-times screen will
appear. If your time is better than the
current best time for the game you
played, you may type in your name.
Press Return, and the best-times file
will be updated on your disk. If your
time did not make the hst, the title
screen will appear. Press the button to
play again.

The first few times you play
Crown Quest, it may take you more
than 20 minutes to get through game
1 . Once you've become familiar with
a certain game, it becomes much easier
to get a decent time. Game 4 should
take you about an hour to solve.

To pause the game, press fl . The
screen's border will flash different
colors to let you know play is sus-
pended. To continue the game, press
fl again. To restart the game com-
pletely, press B.

Without question, the most diffi-
cult task in Crown Quest is trying to
find your way through a maze with a
dragon on your tail. The best way to
solve this problem is to find the sword
first and then to kill the dragon. How-
ever, in the more difficult games, you
might have to pass through two or
three mazes before you locate the
sword. When a dragon is in your path,
avoid it by backing into the previous
maze for a second and then return.
This will confuse the dragon and give
you more lime to escape. Remember
that you can survive a couple of drag-
on hits.

Another challenging aspect of
Crown Quest is that you can carry
only one object at a time. You may
find yourself retracing your steps
many times during a game. When you
cross the toll bridge, you must go back
for necessary objects to recover the
crown. The best strategy is to remem-
ber where you left certain items so
you can recover them quickly.

Keep in mind that there are many
hidden rooms branching off from the
mazes that could contain valuable ob-

jects. You
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ONLY

ON

DISK

There's something new on the Ga-
zette Disk. In addition to the type-in
programs found in each issue of ttie
magazine, we're putting more fea-
tures and programs every month on
the Gazette Disk. Check out the orig-
inal 64 and 128 artwork on display in
"Gazette Gallery," and look for our
bonus programs as well. These pro-
grams and their instructions appear
only on disk. Here are descriptions of
this month's bonus programs.

AFK

Ben Campbell

-AFK {Attack, Fire, Kill) is a two-playef
shoot-'em-up written in machine lan-
guage. Players guide their attack
helicopters from a split-screen per-
spective through a maze of caverns
in this aerial game of hide-and-seek.

Sprite Grabber

Hubert Cross

Sprite Grabber allows you to grab
sprites and save them to disk as
BASIC data statements, assembly
language .BYT statements, or an
ML file.

Sprite Album

Hubert Cross

Sprite Album is a database for stor-
ing sprites you've collected. Besides
storing, you can edit and animate the
sprites, too.

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE

D

ROGRAMS

GARY OUQGERT

The secret to making money on
the stock market is simple: Buy
low and sell high. The trick is
picking a stock whose value is
going to increase after you've bought
it. Here's your chance to become a
Wall Street tycoon in this exciting
game for the 128 in 80-column mode.

Stock Market 128 is fast paced
and operates entirely from the key-
board or keypad. It requires no skill or
knowledge of the actual stock market
and will provide you with unlimited
hours of family entertainment.

Getting Started

Stock Market 128 is written entirely in
BASIC. To avoid typing errors, enter
the program using The Automatic
Proofreader. See "Typing Aids" else-
where in this section. When you've
finished typing, be sure to save a copy
of the program to disk.

Each player starts the game with
$5,000, and the object is to become a
millionaire before your opponent
does. Use this bankroll to buy stock
from any or all of six. stock options
that are presented at the start of the
game.

Once the main screen appears,
the game, just like the actual stock
market, is active. Stock values are
moving up and down. When you're
ready to make your purchases, press
either Return or the space bar. You're
presented with the option to select
player 1 or 2. From there you have the
option to buy stock, sell stock, or re-
turn to the game.

Since you have no stock at the
start of the game, select the buy op-
tion. You're then asked which stock
you wish to purchase. Choose by se-
lecting the number next to the stock's
name. You're then asked how much
stock you want to buy. The program
tells you how many shares you can
purchase depending on the amount of
cash you have on hand. You may de-
cide on a diverse portfolio by spread-
ing your money over a number of
stocks, or you may invest heavily in
just a few.

Because of the instability of the

market, stocks can take devastating
crashes or make incredible gains in a
matter of seconds. You can buy or sell
stock at any time by pressing Return
or the space bar.

Dividends and bonuses are paid
to those who have the foresight to buy
into stocks whose worth rises to more
than $ 100 per share, but there's also a
risk that the stock will crash and most
of the investment will be lost.

BECOME A

MILLIONAIRE IN THIS

FASCINATING ONE-

OR TWO-PLAYER

STOCK MARKET

SIMULATION FOR

THE 128

If a stock goes broke, all investors
lose the monies in that stock, and a
new commodity will take its position
on the board at a value of $50 per
share. Taxes are assessed every 200
updates, which is equivalent to one
year's time. Uncle Sam wants 25
percent of the profits (including
dividends/bonuses) each year. Game
speed can be varied using the -I- or —

keys, and it can be paused by pressing
the P key.

If a player's total net worth de-
clines for three consecutive years, then
that player's seat on the stock market
is sold. At that point, the game is over,
and the opponent is victorious.

Stock Market 128

CG 10 REM COPYRIGHT 1990, COMP

UTE PUBLICATIONS INT'L L

TD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
CS 23 FflST:WINDOW 0,0,79,24:CO

L0R6, 1:SCMCLR: PRINTCHRS (

142)
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{26 IHF>"
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(SHIFT-SPACE)1990 COMPUT

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": PRINT "{WHT} {DOWN}": COS

UB1160
EC 90 AS="ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"

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FX 130 PRINT"'f7}{RVS}

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RS 140 AS="{3>PRESS ANY KEY TO
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AS;

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ER 180 IFP=0ANDX=OANDY=7THENA$

="N":X=l:GOTO240
XP 190 IFP=0ANDX=0THENA$="

{DOWN!M":Y=Y+1:GOTO2 40

0-30 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

PROGRAMS

DF 200

IFP=0ANDX=1THENA$="N":G
OTO240

JH

400

WINDOWO,0,20,0:PRINT"
{WHT}GAME SPEED =";TS+1

=TW{2)+TV(N,2) : NEXT: win
DOW 40, 20,78, 20:PRINT"

AE 210

IFP=1ANDX=0THENA5="M" :G
OTO240

;:WINDOW60,0,7 9,a:PRINT
"{CLR}{HO«E)TAX DUE IN

<7}ST0CK VALUE {WHT)"; J
PRINTUSING"iS»#, ###,###

HG 220

IF P=1AND X=1ANDY=1THEN

{SPACE}-";200-¥R:IF RT»

.##";TW(2)

A$="M":X=0

1 THEN RETURN

QF

600

WINDOW 40,21,78,21:PR1N

DD 2 30

IFP = lANDX5l,THENAS="{UP}
N":Y=Y-1

JH

410

SLEEP TS:GETA$:IFA?THEN
4 20:ELSEGOSUB153 0:GOSUB

T"{GRN}CASH ON HAND
{WHT)"; :PRINTUSING"#$##

GJ 240

PRINTAS; :P=X:Z=Z+1:IFZ=

1250:GOSUB920: IFYR=0THE

,###,###.#it";CH(2)

69THEN100:ELSEFORQ=0TO1

N300:ELSB GOTO400

MB

610

FT(2)=TW(2)+CH(2) :WINDO

10:NEXT:GOTO160

OJ

420

IFAS="P"THEN COLOR6,13:

W 40,22,78,22:PRINT"

CB 250

FORX»flT05:READSK$(X) :SV
(X)=50:NEXT:CH (1)=5O00:

GET KE YAS :C0L0R6 , 1 : G0TO4
00

{PURJTOTAL WORTH {WHT)"
;:PRINTUSING"»$##,#tt,*

CH (2) =5000 :0W(1) =5000:0

KK

430

IFAS="+"THEN TS=TS-1:EL

#i.##";FTt2)

W(2)=5000:YR=0:LTS="*":

SEIFA5="-"THENTS-TS+1

XR

620

RETURN

0Y = 6

SF

440

IFTS>4THENTS=4:ELSEIFTS

PG

630

WINDOW0 ,10,79,24: SCNCLR

JH 260

PRINTCHR$(14) "{CLR}

<0THENTS=0

:A$="BUY OPTIONS":COLOR

{HOME)"; :DE$=CHR$(27)+"

RD

450

IFASOCHRS (13) ANDA$<>CH

5,11:S={80-LEN(A$))/2:P

Q":C0L0R6,1

R.5(32)THEN 400

RINTTAa(S)AS"{DOWN}"

RQ 270

DATA "SILVER", "GOLD", "C
ARS", "TRUCKS", "TRAINS",
"PIZZA" , "SOAP" , "FURS" , "

DG

460

WINDOW 0,10,79,24:PRINT
"(CLRJlHOME) (YEL)"; :A$=
"PLAYER 1 OR 2?":G0SUB1

QF

640

PRINT" { PUR}STOCK"TAB (15
) "CURRENT VALUE"TAB(30)
"AMOUNT OWNED"

SOCKS" , "BEADS" , "CORN" , "

160

XQ

650

FORX=0TO5: PRINT" fWHT) "X

SHEEP" , "SHIRTS" , "HOTELS

PM

470

FAST :GETA$: IFA5=CHRS {13

+1"{LEFT}. ";:COLOR5,2+

", "BUSES", "STEEL" , "OIL"

)THEN350:ELSEIFAS=""ORA

INT (X* 1.2) :PRINTSKS(X)T

, "COPPER"

S<"1"ORAS>"2"THEN4 70

AB{15) ;:PRINTUSING"#$##

GF 280

DATA "NICKEL", "BRASS","

KA

480

P=VAL(AS)

.##";SV(X) ;:PRINTTAB(30

PHONES" , "PAPER" , "PANTS"

HR

490

WINDOW 0, 10,79, 24:PRINT

)BG{X,P) :NEXT

,"MILK"

" (CLR) (HOME) {RVS) (WHT)l

XJ

660

WINDOW4 5,12,79,18:PRINT

JS 290

DATA "COFFEE", "TIRES","
RADIOS"

. {0FF)'{2}BUY":PRINT"
{RVS}{WHT)2. fOFF}{2>SE

"{2}PLAYER "P" CASH ON
{SPACE) HAND {2 DOWN)

QB 300

WINDOH0,0,79,24:PRINT"
fCLR5{HOME}"TAB(30)"

LL":PRINT"{RVS} (WHT)RET
URN{0FF}<2J FOR GAME"

{YEL)":PRINTUSING"tS##,
###,###. ♦#";CH{P) :IFCH(

(GRN}CURRENT STOCK VALQ

PS

500

GETA$: IFAS=""THENS00:EL

P)=<0 THEN GOTO7a0

E(DOWN}"

SEIFAS=CHRS{13)THEN3 5 0

PM

670

WINDOW0,2 2,79,22:SCNCLR

MG 310

PRINTTAB(15)"<2H

(3 SPACES}10{2 SPACES)2

0{2 SPACES}30{2 SPACES}

XP

510

A=VAL(AS) :IF A<1 OR A>2
THEM 500:ELSE ON A GOT
0 630,790

BA

680

PR1NT"{1>WHICH STOCK DO
YOU WISH TO PURCHASE?"

40(2 SPACES}50

HC

520

LL5="":COLOR5,2+INT(X*l

PK

690

GETAS: IFAS=CHR? (13)THEN

{2 SPAC£S}60{2 SPACES)?

.2) :WINDOW 15,3+X,79,3+

WINDOW0,i 0,79, 24: SCNCLR

0{2 SPACESl80{2 SPACES)

X:PRINTDES:FORY=0TO(SV(

:G0TO463

90[2 SPACES}100 110 120

X)/2.5) :LLS = LLS + LTS:NEX

BR

700

IFAS<"1"ORA$>"6"THEN690

n

T:PRINTLL$;

:ELSEX=VALCAS)-1

DE 320

IFRR=flTHENFORX=0TO5:COL

OK

530

PRINTTAB(54) ; :PRINTUSIN

CS

710

PRINTA$

OR5,2+INT(X*l,2) :PBINTS

G"#$#i.##";SV(X) :IFRR=>

HC

720

IFSV(X)=0THENPRINT"

KS(X)TABC15)"**********

GE

540

2THENRETURN

COLOR5,10:WINDOW 10,13+
X,38,13+X:TV(X,1) =BG(X,

{CLR){H0ME)<6>N0T

(SHIFT -SPACE}F0R

{ SH I FT -S PACE ) SALE " : FORZ

***t******";TAB(70)"S50

.00":NEXT:RR=l:GOTO350

EG 330

FORX«0TO5:COLOR5,2+INT (
X*1.2) :PRINTSK${X)TAB(1
5) ; : IFSV{X) =0THENPRINT"

1) '►SV(X) :PRINTDE$; :PRIN
TUSING"H##";BG(X,1) ; :P
RINTUSING"#$##, ###,###.

=0TG5:SOUMD1, 6 000,1: SOU
ND1,0,2:NEXT:SLEEP2:GOT
0670

<CG>"TAB{74)SV(X) :NEXT:E

##";TV(X,1)

GP

73 0

WINDOW 43,23,79,23:PRIN

LSEFORY=aTOINT (SV (X)/10

PA

550

TW(1)=0:FORN=0TO5:TW(1)

T"{CLR) (HOME) ( YEL }HAXIM

) :PRINT"****"; :NEXT:PRI

=TW(1)+TV(N,1) :NEXT:WIN
DOW 0,20,38,20:PRINT"

UM AMOUNT AVAILABLE-";!
NT (CH (P)/SV(X) )

NTTAE(68) ;

AD 340

PRINTUSING"tlS###.«#";SV
(X) :NEXT

{7JST0CK VALUE (WHT)";:
PRINTUSING"#S##, ###,##♦

HS

740

WINDOW0, 2 3,39,23:6=0: IN
PUT "(CLR) {HOME} {PUR) HOW

BG 350

WINDOW 0, 10,79, 24:SCNCL

.I#";tw(1)

MUCH DO YOU WANT" ;B: IF

R:PRINTTAB(10) "<6>PLAYE

ED

560

WINDOW 0,21,38,21:PRINT

B<0THEN 740

R ONE'S ASSETS"TAB(50)"

"{GRN)CASH ON HAND{WHT}

CG

750

PR=B*SV(X) :IF PR>CH(P)

CYEL} PLAYER TWO'S ASSET

";:PRINTUSING"»$##,###,

fSPACElTHEN PRINT"{CLR}

S { DOWN ) "

###.#*";CH{1)

{H0HE){3}N0T ENOUGH MON

KE 360

PRINTTAB (9) "•{7JB0UGHT
{9 SPACES }CURRENT"TAB (4
9)"B0UGHT(9 SPACES)CURR
ENT"

CD

570

FT (1) =TW(1)+CH (1) :WIND0
W 0,22,33,22:PRINT"
(PUR}T0TAL WORTH (WHT)"
;:PRINTUSING"#$##,###,#

EY FOR THAT MUCH!":SOUN
01,5000,30,2,3 0 00,500,1
:SLEEP2:B=0:PR=0;GOTO74
0

RK 370

FORX=0TO5:COLOR5,2+INT (

##.##";ft[1)

JS

760

BG(X,P)-BG(X,P)+B:CH (P)

X*1.2) :PRIHTSKS{X) ;TAB(

JF

580

TV(X,2)=BG(X,2)*SV{X) :W

=CH(P)-PR

40)SK$(X) :NEXT

INDOW 50,13+X,78,13+X:P

GF

770

AS="":GOTO630

GX 380

PRINTCHR$(27) +"M";"
{YEL}"; :FORX=0TO5:GOSUB
540:NEXT

RINT"'(2>"DE$; :PRINTUSIN
G"###»";BG(X,2) ;: PRINTU
SING"»St«,t##,##lt.»#";T

CE

780

PRINT"{CLR) (HOME)

(2 D0WN)<3JlNSUFFICENT

{ SPACE } FUNDS": PR I NT "SEL

MH 390

WINDOW0,9,7 9,9:FORZA=0T

V(X,2)

L SOMETHING FIRST!":SOU

079:PRINT"*"; :NEXT

EE

590

TW(2)=0:FORN=0TO5:TW(2)

NDl, 6000, 30 :SLEEP2: GOTO

DECEMBER 19 9 0

COMPUTE Q-31

PROGRAMS

490

BJ 790 WINDOWS, 10, 79, 24:SCNCLR
:AS = "SSLL OPTIONS" :COi:,0
R5,ll:S=(Ba-LEN(AS) )/2:
PRINTTAB(S) AS'MDOWN}"

HP 800 PRrNT"{PUR)STOCK"TAB (15
) "CURRENT VALUE"TAB(30)
"AMOUNT OWNED"

CF 810 FORX»0TO5:PRINT"{WHTl"X
+1"{LEFT5. ";:C0L0R5,2+
INT (X* 1.2) :PRINTSK${X)T
AB(15); :PRINTUSING"Jt$##

.##";sv (x) ; ; printtab (30

)BG(X,P) :NEXT
GJ 320 WIND0W45,12,79,18:PRINT
"{2}PLAyER "P" CASH OH
{SPACE}HAND{2 DOWN}
{YEL}":PRINTUSING"#S##,

##«,#»#. I#";CH (P)

PA 830 WINDOW0,22,79,22:PRINT"

iGRNjWHICH STOCK DO YOU
WISH TO SELL?"; :GETA$:

IFAS=CHRS (13)THENWIND0W
0,10,79, 24 iSCNCLR: GOTO

460
RX 840 IFA$<"1"ORA$>"6"THEN830

:ELSEX»VAL(A$) -1:PRINTA

S
EJ 850 IF BG (X,P) =0THENPRINT"

{CLR) EH0MEK3JYOU DON'T
OWN ANY OF THAT STOCK!

":SOUND 1,4291, 30, 2, 2145

,2146,2,2048:SLEEP 2:G0

TO830
HA 860 WINDOW0,23,79,23:B=0: IN

PUT" {CLR) (HOME} {6}H0W H

ANY";B:IFB<0THEN91O
HX 870 IFB>BG(X,P)THENPRINT"

{CLRl{HO!^E}<3>Y0U DON'T
OWN THAT MUCH":S0UND1,

8 583, 30:SLEEP2:GOTO8 6 0
JF 880 PR=B*SV(X)
HE 890 BG{X,P) =BG(X,P)-B:CH (P)

= CH (P)+PR
XB 900 GOTO790
MF 910 PRINT"{CLR} {H0ME)i3>D0

(SPACEJX LOOK THAT STUP

ID! TRY AGAIN. "iSOUHDl,

3 000,30,1:SLEEP2:GOTO86

0
CX 920 YR=YR+lt IFYR<200THEN RE

TURNiELSE YR=0 : COLORS , 1

:COLOR6,16:SOUND 1,3433

4,90,0,4291,100,2,2048
SD 930 FORP=1TO2:WINDOW0,0,79,

24: PRINT "{CLR) {HOME}"
RH 94 0 AS="UNCLE {RVS}{RED} S

(space) (wht} a {1} h
{blkKoff) wants his SH
are of the profits !":g0
sub1160: print" (down)"

rj 950 as""player"+strs (p) :g0s
ub 1160: print "(down)"

ar 960 print"you ended this ye
ar with"tab(54) ; :printu

SING"t$##,###,##».##";F

T(P)
AD 970 PRINT"Y0U STARTED THIS

(SPACETYEAR WITH"TAB(54

) ; iPRINTUS I NG"#S* #,###,

###.#i";OW(P)
HG 980 YP=FT (P) -OW(P) ;
KG 990 1FYP=0THENPRINT"

(3 DOWN}":A$="YOU CAN'T

LIE TO US1(2 SPACES }TH
E IRS IS GOING TO INVES
TIGATE THIS'":GOSUB1160
:GOTO1130

EM 1000 IF YP<0THENBEGIN:LY{P)
=LY(P)+1:WS»3-LY{P) :IF
LY(P)=3THEN1170

BH 1010 AS="(RED}WARNING{BLK}"
: PRINTCHRS (2) ; :GOSUBil
60: PR I NT" {2 DOWN)"

BQ 1020 AS="(3 SPACES )THROUGH
[SPACE}C0MPLETE INCOMP
ETENCE, YOU HAVE MANAG
ED TO COMPLETELY UNDER
WHELM THE":PRINTA$

FF 1030 AS="MEW YORK STOCK EXC
HANGE, EMBARRASSING YO
UR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS
(SPACElAND RELATIVES.
(2 SPACES )I_F":PRINTAS

CS 1940 AS="THIS UNSEEMLY BEHA
VIOR CONTINUES FOR"+ST
R$(WS)+" MORE YEARS, Y
OUR SEAT ON THE STOCK"
:PRINTAS

RB 1050 AS="EXCHANGE WILL BE G
IVEN TO ONE WHO IS MOR
E WORTHYl":PRINTAS:PRI
NT"{DOWN}":OW(P)=FT (P)

QF 1060 IFDT(P)>0THENBEGIN:TX=

INT (DT (P) /4) : PRINT"YOU

DID MANAGE TO COLLECT

$ (LEPT)"+3TR5{DT (P) )

+" IN DIVIDENDS. (DOWN}

DJ 1070 PRINT"LET'S SEE... AH

(SPACETyES, a MERE 25%
FOR UNCLE SAH AMOUNTS
TO"; :PRINTUSING"#S##,

»##,lt#t.##";TX:CH (P)=C

H (P)-TX
KX 1080 PRINT"THANK YOU FOR YO

UR GENEROSITY" :BEND:BE

ND
BA 1090 IFYP<=0THEN1130
MP 1103 TX=INT (YP/4) :PRINT"YOU
HAVE EARNED";TAB(54) ;

CHR$(2) ; :PRINTUSING"#$

##,»»»,# It #.»#";YP:
MP 1110 PRINT"UNCLE SAH WANTS

(SPACEThIS 25%, SO THA

T MEANS YOUR TAXES ARE

";:PRINTUSING"#S##,ft##

,###.##";TX:CH(P)=CH(P

)-TX
AS 1120 PRINT"{2 DOWNiHAVE A N

ICE DAY!":LY (P)=0
XH 1130 WINDOW0,24,79,24:AS="

{RED} PRESS ANY TO CONT

INUE.":GOSUB1160:DT (P)

= 0
CF 1140 GETAS:IFAS»""THEN1140
JK 1150 OW(P)=FT(P) :DT(P)=0:NE

XT:C0LOR6, liRETURH
SP 1160 S={80-LEN(A5) )/2:PRINT

TAB(S)AS;:RETURN
GG 1170 WINDOW0,0,79,24:SCNCLR

:C0L0R6, 3:COLOR5,l
ED 1180 A$="(BLK)PLAYER"+STRS (

P) :GOSUB1160:PRINT
KS 1190 PRINT"(2 D0WN}(BLU}GAH

E IS OVER FOR YOU.

(2 SPACES )THE other PL

AYER BEAT THE PANTS OF

F OF YOU!"
CA 1200 PRINT"TOO BAD . . HAHAH^A ,
HE HE . . HAH AH A, . .

(2 SPACES} EXCUSE ME, B

UT IT IS FUNNY."
HA 1210 PRINT"(3 DOWNjWOULD YO

U LIKE ANOTHER CHANCE?

■ I

SD 1220 GETA$:IFAS="Y''ORa$ = "N"

THEN1230:ELSE1220

BP 1230 SLEEP2:PRINT"S0RRY BUT
I_ CHANGED MY MIND, YO
U CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER C
HANCE!"

AA 1240 PRINT" (3 D0WN}G00D-BYE
":SLEE PI: COLORS, 1:C0L0
R6,1:END

CK 1250 X=INT(RND(Y)*6) :y=RND{
X) *10+1:Z-INT{RND{X)*2
) : IFZ=lTHENY-3-Y

KJ 1260 SV{X)=SV(X)+Y

BQ 1270 IFSV(X)=<0THENSV(X)=0:
ELSEIFSV(X)=>120THENSV
(X)=120

BH 1280 IFSV(X)=0THENBEGIN

GD 1290 WINDOW 0, 10, 79 , 24 : SCNC
LR:COLOR5,2+INT (X*1.2)
:AS=SKS(X)+" HAS GONE
{SPACE }BROKE!":GOSUB 11
60:PRINT"{YEL}"

HC 1300 PRINT"{DOWN}A NEW COMP
ANY HAS REPLACED THIS
{SPACE} FAILURE.
(2 SPACES} ALL STOCKS 0
F THIS COMPANY HAVE BE
EN"

JK 1310 PRINT"REMOVED FROM YOU
R PORTFOLIO. (2 SPACES)
YOU WILL NOTICE THAT I
F YOU OWNED STOCK IN T
HIS"

BH 13 20 PR I NT "YOU NO LONGER OW
N IT.":aG(X,l)=0:BG(X,
2)=0:READSKS (X) :SV(X) =
50:WINDOW0,3+X,8,3+X:S
CNCLR

KP 1330 COLORS, 2+INT (X*l. 2) :PR
INTSKS(X) :RR=2:GOSUB52
0

GR 1340 SOUND 1,2000,30,0,0,0,
1,1000

SH 1350 WINDOW0,20,79,20:COLOR
5, 2+INT (X*1.2) :AS = "PRE
SS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE
":GOSUB1160:IF UY=>26
(SPACE}THEN RESTORElUY
=0:ELSE UY=+UY+1

XC 1360 GETA$:IFA$=""THEN1360

EB 1370 COLOH6,1:RT=1:GOSUB350
:BEND

JP 1380 IFSV{X)=0THEN1S20:ELSE
PS=INT{RND(Y)*5) : IFSV
(X)<10ANDPS=3THENSV (X)
=SV(X)+30:HR=2:GOSUB52
0:RR=1:SOUND 1,10000,1
00,0,600,100,3,500

QM 1390 PS=INT (RND(Y)*5) :IFPS=
2ANDSV (X) >100THENBEGIN
:SV(X) =SV{X)/5:RR=2:GO
SUB520

JX 1400 FORT=1T016:COLOR6,T:FO
RTT = 0TO 20 : NE XT : NE XT : CO
LOR6,l:SOUNDl,90 0 0,12g
,1,0,20,0,2048:SOUND2,

6.32 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

PROGRAMS

SA 1410
CM 1420

AF 1430

DX 1440

CA 145G

DC 1460

HP 1470
MQ 1480

7000,120,1,0,20,0,2048

:SOUND3,6000,120,1,9,2

0,0,204e:BEND

IF SV (X) >10OTHEHBEGIN

DV=INT (RND(Y)*10)410:F

0RP=1T0 2: IFBG (X,P) =0TH

EN1510:ELSEDX(P) =BG(X,

P)*DV:CH (P)=CH (P)+DX(P

)

WINDOW0,10,7 9,24:SCNCL

R: AS="<7}PLAYER"+STRS {

P) :GOSUB1160:PRItIT"

{WHTl{3 DOWN}"

PRINT"YOLr OWN "BG(X,P)

" PIECES OF "SK5(X}".

{2 SPACES}THEY ARE WOR

TH";TAB(60) ;:PRINTOSIN

G"#$##,##*,###.##";BG(

X,P)*SV(X)

PRINT" (DOWN} YOUR COMPA

NY IS PAYING YOU A DIV

IDEND OF";TAB(60) ; : PRI

NTUSING"#S##, ###,###.#

#";DX{P)

IFSV(X) =120THENDB=BG (X

,P)*25:CH=CH+DB:DT(P) =

DT (P)+DB:PRINT"{D0WN}F

OR YOUR LOYALTY TO THE

COMPANY, ":PRINT"YOU R
ECEIVE A SPECIAL BONUS

OF"; TAB (60) ; :ELSEGOTO
14 8 0

PRINTUSING"#S##,##I,#»
# . ##" "DB

PRINT" (DOWN}DON'T SPEN
D IT ALL IN ONE PLACE!

WINDOW 0,23,79,23:AS="
{CYN}PRESS ANY KEY":GO
SUB 1160 :RR = 3:GOSUB520
GETA$: 1FAS=""THEN1500
NEXTjBEND: IFRR=3THENRT
=1:GOSUB350:RT=0:RETUR
N

IFRT«1THEN RT=0:X=X-1:
RETURN:ELSE IFRR>lTHEN
RR=1:RETURN:ELSE RR=1;
GOSUB520: RETURN
F0RP=1T02:IFFT (P)<100
{SPACElTHEN BEGIN
WINDOW 0,0,79,24:COLOR
6,13:SCNCLR

AS=" (BLO}PLAYER"+STRS (
P) :GOSUB1160:PRINT"
(ELK) {2 DOWN)"
PRINT"YOUR TOTAL WORTH

HAS DECLINED TO LESS
{SPACE}THAN S100-00.
(2 SPACES) WE REGRET, (
HEHEHE ) , "

PRINT"TO INFORM YOU TH
AT YOUR SEAT ON THIS E
XCHANGE HAS BEEN SOLD!
[2 SPACES) PLEASE SHAKE

GH 1580 PRINT"THE WINNER'S HAN
D ON YOUR WAY OUT THE
{SPACE)DOOR, AND DON'T
SLAM IT! {3 DOWN}"

RE 1590 SOUND 1 , 6000 , 60 : RR = 3

QA 1600 AS="{RVS) {WHT} PRESS A
NY KEY ":GOSUB1160

HC 1610 GET A$:IFA$=""THEN1610
:ELSE RUN

DX

1490

DD

1500

SP

1510

BQ

1520

AG

1530

FS

1540

JB

1550

CM

1560

DP 157{

SH

1620

BEND

AF

1630

IF FT(P)=>1000000.00TH
ENBEGIN;WINDOW0,0,7 9,2
4:SCNCLR

HK

1640

A5="{3>PLAYER"+STRS (P)
:GOSUB1160:PRINT"{2>
{3 DOWN}"

JA

1650

PRINT"CONGRATULATIONS !
(2 SPACES) YOU ARE A MI
LLI0NAIRE.T2 SPACES)GO
AHEAD AND SHAKE THE L
OSER'S HAND."

HM

1660

PRINT"HE NEEDS THE COM
FORT AFTER SUCH A CRUS
HING DEFEAT. (2 SPACES)
WELL DONE, NOW GET UP
TSPACE}0UT"

RH

1670

PRINT"0F THAT CHAIR AN
D LET SOMEONE ELSE PLA
Y FOR A WHILE. ":CH tP)-
5000:FORZ=0TO5:BG(Z,P)
=0:NEXT

JD

1680

SOUNDl, 9000,180,2, 100,
1000,0,100

PX

1690

PRINT"{3 DOWN) {YEL)":A
S= "PRESS ANY KEY":GOSU
81160

JQ

1700

GETKEYA-SlRUN

FQ

1710

BEND

KQ

1720

NEXT

CQ

1730

RETURN

HP

1740

W1NDOW0,0,79,24:PRINT"
{CLR}iHOME}"

QR

1750

PRINTERR? [ER) ;EL

HS

1760

END

HUBERT C fl O S S

Iengths of fuse have been laid out
in overlapping patterns on a
playing screen of movable tiles.
Your job, once the fuse has been
lit, is to join lengths of fuse in order to
keep the flame burning for as long as
possible

Like many other puzzles, Fuse
appears deceptively simple at the be-
ginning, but it grows in complexity as
the game progresses. You find that
quick thinking and careful planning
yield the highest scores.

Getting Started

Fuse is written entirely in machine
language, but it loads and runs as a
BASIC program. You'll need MLX.
the machine language entry program,
to type it in. See "Typing Aids" else-
where in this section. When MLX
prompts you, respond with the values
given below.

Starting address: 0801
Ending address: 15F0

After you've entered all the data

ADDING FUEL TO THE

FIRE IS THE WHOLE

IDEA BEHIND THIS

BURNING ARCADE

GAME FOR THE 64,

JOYSTICK REQUIRED.

for Fuse, save a copy to disk before
exiting MLX. When you're ready to
play, plug a joystick into port 2, load
Fuse, and type RUN. Press the fire
button to start playing.

The object of Fuse is to keep the
flame burning for as long as possible.
Help the flame stay alive by moving
the tiles with the joystick. The longer
you manage to keep it going, the high-
er your score. The game ends when
the flame runs out of fuse or when it
reaches one of the borders.

Don't wait until the flame is
about to run out of fuse to start mov-
ing. Look ahead and follow the fuse to
its end; then move to that area and
maneuver the tiles to create the long-
est possible path. You won't be able to
keep it going forever, but the longer
you do, the more points you receive.
As the flame travels, the fuse is
burned up, leaving only a blank tile
behind. So you must continuously
shuffle the tiles around to keep the
flame lit.

Sometimes it's a good idea to
make the flame change paths by wait-
ing beside a tile and moving that tile
when the flame is on it. You'll have to
be fast, though, because you'll lose if
the flame reaches the tile's border
before the tile stops moving.

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE Q-33

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DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE

0-3S

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ROGRAMS

P E T E H

M

L 0 T T R U P

Here's a challenging and entertain-
ing game that pits you and an-
other player against each other.
The object is to see who can be
the first to move across a number of
squares to the opposing side of the
board first without getting electrocut-
ed. The problem is, which squares are
wired for you, which for your oppo-
nent, and which have no power at all?
Play High Voltage! &nd fmd out.

Typing It In

High Voltage! is written entirely in
BASIC. To avoid typing mistakes, use
The Automatic Proofreader to type it
in. See "Typing Aids" elsewhere in
this section. When you've finished,
save the program to disk.

High Voltage! may be played
from the keyboard or with a joystick
plugged into port 2. After you've load-
ed and run the program, a presenta-
tion screen will appear. Press any key
to start the game or press the fire but-
ton on the joystick. The computer will
take a few seconds to "wire" the board
(the board is different every time),
and then the game will begin.

Playing the Game

The object of High Voltage! is easy:
Get to the opposing side of the board
before your opponent does. The red
player (player 1) moves from the top
of the board to the bottom. The green
player (player 2) moves from the bot-
tom to the top.

The starting player is chosen at
random by the computer. The player's
turn is displayed on the bottom right
of the screen. You may start from any
of the squares along the top or bottom
row, but you may move only on
squares that are your color. The prob-
lem is that you can't tell what color a
square is until you select it by pressing
the fire button or hitting Return,

If you accidentally move onto a
square with your opponent's color,
you get zapped and are returned to
your end of the board. You lose con-
trol of the game, and it becomes the
other player's turn. If you fall on a
square that's black (not wired at all),

you'll be returned to your previous
position and may try again. You may
land on up to three black squares,
after which control passes to the other
player. When you're zapped back to
the start, you'll have to retrace your
steps. Observation and a good memo-
ry will help, as you'll have to remem-
ber your steps along the board to be
able to retrace them later.

Movement is limited to one posi-
tion in any of eight directions and is
controlled by the cursor keys on the
keyboard or the joystick. To move to
a square, put the cursor on it and
press the fire button or press Return.
If it's an invalid move, nothing will
happen. Otherwise, you'll see what
hides in that position.

The game ends when either play-
er has reached the other side of the
board. The computer will reveal the
board and announce the winner; you
may then play again by pressing any
key or the fire button.

If play gets to be loo frustrating,
you can press f7 at any time to end the
current game without there being any
winners. The game board and all the

squares will then be displayed with
the correct path revealed. Play can
then be resumed.

Strategy

High I'b/m^e/ requires good memory
and careful observation as well as
luck. There will always be at least one
correct path to the other side of the
board, sometimes more. Pay attention
to your own moves and try to memo-
rize the moves you're making. Also
watch what your opponent reveals.
His or her mistakes may help you
know the ending positions of your
own path on the board.

Watch out for booby traps. Some
paths may seem correct for two or
three moves, but there will be no way
out, making you lose valuable time
backtracking.

High Voltage

GA 1 REM COPYRIGHT 1990, COMPU
TE PUBLICATIONS INT'L, LT
D. ALL RIGKTS RESERVED.
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+ 1
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1THENX1=01:Y1=U1:G0T014
0

036 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

PROGRAMS

FR 210

IFT(Yl,Xl)=0ORT(yi,Xl)-
2THENT (Y1,X1)=2:GOTO230

=C+1:GOTO470

{WHT) {OFF){A}*********

EF

683

GOSUB150 0:GOSUB950:IFS1

******{S}"

CE 220

X1"O1:Y1=U1:GOTO140

<XTHEN470

EQ 1070 PRINTTAB(5) "(WHT3-

QF 230

IFyi<>XTHEN130

XP

690

WW=l:GOTOia40

{15 SPACES}-"

GJ 240

X2 = INT (RND(1)*X)+1:IFT (

RR

700

PL=2:S1=1:S2=1:FL=1:G0S

PD 1080 PRINTTA8(5) "- {YEL}THE

Y2,X2)THEN24a

UB154 0.:GOSUB9 50:GOTO4 5 0

WINNER IS -"

DS 245

WW = 0:T (Y2,X2)=5

MX

710

V1=T1:V2=T2

CG 1090 PRINTTAB(5) "{WHT}-

ME 250

01=X2:U1=Y2

BF

720

A=Tl:B=.T2;POKE53287,5:I

|YEL}PLAYER #"PL:PRINT

JC 260

XX=INT(RND(l)*5)+4

FO2THEN940

V$(13)TAB(17)" !

RM 270

IFXX=4THENX2=X2-1

RH

730

PC KEV,B* 2*8+20: POKE V+1,

(2 SPACES} {WHT}-"

QP 280

IFXX»5THENX2=X2+1

A*2*8+48:OA=A:OB=B

PQ 1100 PRINTTAB(5) "(WHT}-

GC 290

IFXX=6THENX2=X2-1:Y2=Y2

QG

740

GETA$

{15 SPACES}-"

-1

OB

750

IFA5="[RIGHT}"THENB=B+1

JA 1110 PRINTTAB(5)"{HHT}{Z}-**

AR 300
BH 310

IFXX=7THEKY2=Y2-1
IFXX=8THENY2=Y2-1:X2=X2

DQ

760

:GOTO8 3 0

IFA$="( LEFT) "THE NB=a-l:

******A4*****/^VI> ^~"

FB 1120 PRINTVS(17)TAB(26)"

+ 1

GOTO330

{OFF}{CYN}PRESS AMY KE

BP 320

IFX2>XORX2<10RY2>XORY2<

FK

770

IFA$="(D0WN}"THENA=A+1;

Y"

1THENX2=01:Y2=U1!GOT0 26

GOTO 8 30

GB 1130 PRINTTAB(26) "

0

BE

780

IFAS = "(UP}"THEbJA = A-l:GO

{2 SPACES}OR <FIRE> "

QX 330

IFT[Y2,X2)=0THENT (Y2,X2

T083a

GR 1140 PRINTVS(19)TAB(66)"TO

)'5:GOTO370

DH

790

IFAS=CHR$(13)THEN850

{SPACE}PLAY AGAIN"

GK 340

IFT (Y2,X2)=2THENWW-WW+1

KS

800

IFAS = " { F7 } "THENPL = 0 : GOT

PR 1150 GETAS:U=PEEK(56320) :IF

CC 350

IFWW>5THENY2=X:X2=INT (R

01040

A$<>""0RU=111THENRUN

ND(1>*X)+1:GOTO240

JC

810

U=PEEK(56320) :GOSOB1580

SP 1160 GOTO1150

FM 360

X2=O1:Y2=U1:GOTO260

:IFA$<>""THEN750

FD 1170 A1S="{RVS){RIGHT}{4}

GS 370

IFY2O1THEH250

EJ

320

GOTO74 0

{BLU}":A2S=A1$

FB 380

F0RI=1T0X:F0RJ=1T0X:IFT

SX

833

IFA<10RB<10RA>XORB>XTHE

RH 1130 TA(1)=0:TA(2)=2:TA(3)=

(I,J)=20RT (I ,J)=5THEN42

NA=OA:B-OB:GOTO730

5

0

DP

340

GOTO730

JF 1190 F0RI=1T011:A1S=A1S+"

QF 390

UX=RND(1) : IFUX<.2THEKT (

XH

850

IF(T1=XANDA<X)0R(T1<>X)

{AHS>":NEXT

I,J)=2:GOTO420

THEN873

KC 1200 AAS=AAS+"{4} "+CHR$ (13

AF 400

IFUX>.8THENT {I, J) =5: GOT

AG

860

Tl=A:T2=B:GOTO890

)+"{RlGHT}{RVS} <7}"

0420

SA

870

IFABS (Tl-A) >10RABS (T2-B

FP 1210 FOfiI=lT011:A25=A25+"

MX 413

T(I,J)=0

) >1THEN730

{Z>{X}":NEXT

XH 420

NEXT J, I

HJ

880

T1"A:T2=B

KG 1220 GOSUB1290:GOSUB1380:GO

AB 430

Sl=l:S2=l:Tl=X;T2=X

EG

890

POKEV,0:POKEV+1,0

SUB1540

KE 440

POKE198,0;PL = I[gT (RND(l)

PJ

900

I»Ti:J-T2:GOSUB980:IFT(

AS 1230 PRINTV5(17)TAB(26J"

*2)+l

I, J) =2THEN940

{CyN}PRESS ANY KEY"

BA 450

C=0:GOSUB1330

JQ

910

IFT (I,J)=0THENGOSUS1520

HA 1240 PRINTTAB{26) "TO BEGIN.

QM 460

IFPL=2THEN710

:GOSUB950:T1=V1:T2=V2:C

II

GQ 470

U1=S1:U2=S2

=C+1:GOTO710

CX 1250 I=1NT(RND{1)*11)+1:J=I

RE 4S0

A=sl:B=s2;POKE53 2 87,2: I

DM

920

GOSUB1500:GOSOB950:IFT1

NT (RND(1)*11)+1:T (I, J)

FO2THEN700

O1THEN710

='TA(INT(RND(1)*3)+1)

KF 490

POKEV,B*2*8+20:POKEV+1,

SM

930

HW=2:GOTO1040

MH 1260 GOSUB9801T(I, J)=0:GETA

A*2*8+48:OA=A:OB=B

GG

940

PL=1:T1=X:T2=X:FL=1:G0S

$:U=PEEK(56320) :IFRS<>

HG 500

GETAS

UB1540:GOSUB950:GOTO4 50

""ORU=111THEK1280

BP 510

IFA$ = " {RIGHT )"THBNB>=B + 1

ED

950

IFI=7THENPRINTVS (1*2-1)

CD 1270 GOTO1250

: GOTO 590

TAB{40 + J*2)"{BLUHRVS}

FK 1280 GOSUB1290:RETURN

RG 520

IFAS="{LEFT}"THENB=B-1:

{AHS}{D0WN3 (2 LEFTjtZj

QJ 1290 PRINT"{CLR} {RIGHT}

GOTO590

{X>{HOHE)":GOTO970

{D0WN}{RVS}i4}";

SB 530

IFA5="{UP}"THENA=A-1:G0

RD

960

PRINTV9(I*2)TAB(J*2)"

FX 1300 F0SI=1T012:PRINT"

TO590

{BLU}{RVS)iA}^S}{DOWN}

{2 SPACES}";:NEXT:PRIN

XD 540

ifas="{down3"thena=a+1:

{2 LEFT}{ZHxHH0ME}";

T

GOTO590

MC

970

RETURN

JC 1310 F0RI=1T011:PRINTA1S"

FX 550

IFA$=CHR5(13)THEN610

QJ

98S

IFT(I,J)-2THENPRINT"

•t4> ":PRINTA2S'H4J ":N

BX 560

IFAS="{F7)"THENPL=0:GOT

{RED}";

EXT

01040

SG

990

IFT{I,J)=5THENPRINT"

BF 1320 PRINT"{RIGHT}{RVS}^4>"

GX 570

U=PEEK(56320) :GO3UB1580

(GRN)";

; :F0RI=1T012:PRINT"

:IFA$<>""THEN510

PS

100C

IFT{I,J)=0THENPRINT"

{2 SPACES}"; :NEXT:RETU

GH 58 0

GOTO500

{BLK}";

RN

KK 590

IFA<10RB<10RA>X0RB>XTHE

FM

101C

IFI=7THENPRINTV5 {1*2-1

QC 1330 PRINTVS(17)TAB(26) "

JQ 600

NA=OA:B=OB:GOTO490
GOTO490

)TAB(40+J*2) "{RVS)UI
{DOWN} {2 LEFT}JK{H0ME)

{BLU}{0FF}'CA>*********

*{S>"

PX 610

IF(S1=1ANDA>1)0R(S1<>1)

";:GOTO1030

XM 1340 PRINTTAB(26)"-"; SPRINT

THEN630

JS

102C

PRINTV$(I*2)TAB(J*2)"

"(RED)"; :IFPL=2THENPRI

HR 620

S1=A:S2=B:GOTO650

{RVS)i;i(DOWN} (2 LEFTfj

NT"{GRN}";

QF 630

IFABS (Sl-A) >10RABS (S2-B

K{HOMfT";

QA 1350 PRINT" PLAYER"PL:PRINT

)>1THEN490

SB

103{

RETURN

VS(18)TAB(36) "{BLU} -

XK 640

S1=A;S2=B

CQ

104C

POKE V+21,0: FORI =1T0X:F

{2 SPACES}"

JG 650

POKEV,0:POKEV+1,0

ORJ=1TOX:GOSUB980!NEXT

PJ 1360 PRINTV$(19)TAB(66) "

HB 660

I=S1:J = S2:GOSUB980:IFT (
I,J)=5THEN700

SF

lasc

J, I

GOSUB1540 : IFPL=0THEN11

{BLU} {OFF) <Z}*********

*tX}":RETURN

FS 670

IFT{I,J)=0THENGOSUB1520

20

BH 1370 PSINTV$(3)TAB(28)"

:GOSUB950:S1=U1:S2=U2:C

XA

1066

FRINTV5(10)TAB(5)"

{0FF}{RED3 {RVS}£

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE G-37

PROGRAMS

SG 1380

BQ 1390

FS 1400

QH 1410

SE 1420

JD 1430

AJ
HG
HX
PS

AC
CD

1440
14 50
1460
1470
1480
1490

(5 SPACE

H=26:PRI

[OFF) (6

{irEL}£{3

£"

PRINTTAB

{RVS}£{3

£"

PRIMTTAB

{RVS}£{3

El"

PRINTTAB
(RVS}£{2

i"

PRINTTAB (H) "f4

[RVS]£{2 SPACE

£"

PRINTTAB (H) "{3

{RVS}£{2 SPACE

i"

PRINTTAB (H) "{4
{RVS}£ COFFjfi"
PRINTTAB (H) "13
{RVS}£ {OFF}£"
PRINTTAB (H) "T2
{RVS)£ (OFF]£"
PRINTTAB (Hi "12
{RVSj£{OFF}£"
PRINTTAB (H)" {
{OFF}£"
PRINTVS(9)TAB(

NTV5 (3) TAB (H) "
SPACES) (RVS)
SPACES) (OFF)

(H) "{5 SPACES)
SPACES) (OFF)

(H)"{4 SPACES}
SPACES KOFF}

(H)"[5 SPACES}
SPACES} {OFF)

SPACES}
S) (OFF)

SPACES}
S}(OFF}

SPACES)

SPACES}

SPACES}

SPACES}

RVS}£

26)"

{YEL}{OFF}HIGH{RVS}£

(OFF}VOLTAGE ! " :RETURN
HP 1500 POKE54273,70:POKE54278

,24 9: POKE 54296, 15: POKE

54276, 17:POKE54276, 16
QX 1510 FORDY=1TO300:NEXT:POKE

54273, 0:RETI;rN
RB 1520 FORP=lT015:POKE54296,l

5: POKE 54296,0: NEXT: RET

URN
DP 1530 FORB=1TO250STEP3: POKES

4 27 3,B:NEXT:POKE54296,

0:FL=0:HETURN
RS 1540 FORP'>54272T054295:POKE

P, 01 NEXT: POKE 54 296, 15
MD 1553 POKE54277,8:POKE54278,

2 55:POKE54276,23:A'=6:P

0KE54287,A:IFFLTHEN153

0
CQ 1560 FORB=1TO150:POKE54273,

B:A=A-.01:NEXT
KJ 1570 GOSUB1500:POKE54296,0:

RETURN
MC 1580 A$="":IFU=111THENA$=CH

RS(13)
HR 1590 IFU=119THENA$="(RIGHT}

It

JR 1600 IFU=123THENAS="{LEFT}"

HK 1610 IFU=126THENAS="{UP}"

XS 1620 IFU=125THENAS="{D0HN}"

JH 1630 RETURN H

TYPING AIDS

MLX, the machine language entir
program for the 64 and 128, and The
Automatic Proofreader SiTe utilities
that help you type in Gazette pro-
grams without making mistakes.
These labor-saving utilities are on
each Gazette Disk and printed in is-
sues of Gazette through June 1 990.

If you don't have access to a back
issue or to one of our disks, write and
we'll send you free copies of both of
these handy utilities. We'll also in-
clude instructions on how to type in
Gazette programs. Please enclose a
self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Write to Typing Aids, COMPUTEI's
Gazette, 324 West Wendover Avenue,
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408.

K E

T H

M

G R O C E

There are times when it would be
nice to print a word processor
file in something other than the
box you get from setting mar-
gins. For example, you might want to
print on letterhead or stationery with-
out running into the preprinted mat-
ter, leave space for photos or hand-
drawn illustrations, turn your notes
into 3X5 cards, or print the text of
your annual Christmas letter in the
shape of a Christmas tree.

This program is a convenient
way for anyone who doesn't own a
desktop publishing program yet may
want to publish a simple newsletter
and have text fit around a graphic or
photograph. You can place text in col-
umns, rectangles, or any other shape
that fits yotu- requirements, preview it
on your monitor, and then have the
finished product roll off your printer.

Text Fitter lets you set text
boundaries for each line and then fill
these areas from standard Commo-
dore-ASCII sequential files. The
boundaries, or text-limit lines, are
drawn anywhere on an 80-column X
55-line page. Word-wrapped text is
placed between limit lines. You may
also save any text which has not been
placed in a "leftover" file. Text Fitter

PRINT TEXT IN

COLUMNS OR HAVE

IT FLOW IN WHATEVER

SHAPE YOU DESIRE

WITH THIS HANDY

PRINTING UTILITY

FOR THE 64

prints only one page at a time. The
program pours text in, filling your
custom-designed page or shape. If you
have more text in the file than is
needed to fill the page, then the left-

overs are saved and can be printed in
another custom page or printed nor-
mally with your word processor.

Getting Started

Text Fitter consists of a BASIC pro-
gram and machine language subrou-
tines. The BASIC program should be
entered with The Automatic Proof-
reader; the machine language pro-
gram, with MLX. See "Typing Aids"
elsewhere in this section. When MLX
prompts you, respond with the values
given below.

Starting address:
Ending address:

COOO
C808

Once you've finished entering the
data, save a copy to disk. The BASIC
program loads the machine language
program, so be sure to save the ML
program as FITTER.ML.

Using the Program

Before using Text Fitter, you must
create a source file. Any Commodore-
ASCII sequential file (like those pro-
duced by Easy Script or by printing a
file to disk with SpeedScript) is ac-
ceptable. Don't include control char-
acters for underlining, italics, or the

G-38 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

D

ROGRAMS

like in your text file because the re-
sults will be unsatisfactory.

When you load and run Text Fil-
ler, a menu/help screen will be dis-
played. This screen lists all the
commands to manipulate the text-
limit lines. Press a key as indicated to
move to the layout screen. Mark text-
limit lines by moving the red and
green cursors to the endpoinls of the
line you want to mark and pressing
the M key. Marked lines will appear
as a series of dashes on the layout
screen. Connect lines to block out
areas of text and non-text. (Note that
the printing area edges are also text
limits.) The layout screen displays the
cursor positions in terms of column/
line count and inches as measured
from the upper left corner of the print-
ing area. This is helpful when you
need to lay out your text accurately.

When you've finished marking
limit lines, return to the menu/help
screen and press the T key. You'll be
asked to enter the name of your
source file and, optionally, leftover
filenames for the text.

After these have been entered, the
source file will be opened, and a sec-
ond menu/help screen will be dis-
played. Press a key and move to the
layout screen as before. Position the
cursor where the first character is to
be placed and press the T key, (Don't
place the cursor directly on a dashed
line.) Text will fill down the area
marked, following the leftmost limit
until no open spaces are detected be-
neath the line last placed.

Text characters are marked with
dots on the layout screen page. Move
the cursor and fill any open areas de-
sired. Note that text will only fill
downward from the starting point,
since that's the way text is read. (If
you want an open area in the middle
of the page, divide the page into two
or more columns to give each area of
text a leftmost limit to follow.)

You can start a new source file
from the menu/help screen by press-
ing the F key. The leftover file (if any)
will be saved, and the new filename
will be entered as before.

To print or save your page, press
the S key at the menu/help screen.
The source file will be closed and the
leftover file saved before a third menu
screen appears. From this menu you
can print the page or save the format-
ted page to disk. The saved disk file

may be loaded into your word proces-
sor for enhancements or printing. Ad-
just the printer OPEN statement in
Line 550 to match the secondary ad-
dress for your printer. Also note the
REM satement in line 540 that pro-
vides for carriage returns to be added
at the end of each line should your
printer require them.

IbXT FITTER

PM

10

HEM COPYRIGHT 1990, COMP
UTE PUBLICATIONS INT'L,
{SPACE) LTD. ALL RIGHTS R
ESERVED.

ftp

20

POKE 5 5, 192: POKE 56, 91

PH

30

IFA=0THENA=1:LOAD"FITTER
.ML", 8,1

PX

40

SYS49252:REM INIT

MA

50

POKE53 2 8 0,0:POKE53 281,0

RJ

60

PRINT"(CLR}{7}TEXT FITTE
R - MARK TEXT LIMIT LINE
StCYN}"

EE

70

PRINT" (2 DOWNlSELECT CUR
SOR: [R]=RED [G)=GREEN"

RH

80

PRINT" (DOWNlMOVE SELECTE

D CURSOR WITH [CRSR] KEY

S"

PHINT"{D0WN} [Hi=MARK LIN

SH

90

E BETWEEN CURSORS"

GA

100

PRINT "(DOWN) [[J]=UNHARK
{SPACElLINE"

AH

110

PRINT"{D0WK) [CLR]=HEM0V
E ALL LINES"

GD

120

PRINT"{DOWN} [4]=RET0RN
{SPACElTO THIS SCREEN"

HB

130

PRINT"{2 D0WN}{8}PRESS
{SPACE} (T] AT THIS SCRE
EN TO BEGIN"

AQ

140

PRINT"(DOWN}PLACING TEX
T. ■E6>PRESS ANY OTHER K
EY TO"

HP

150

PRINT" {D0WN}CONTIN[JE MA
RKIMG LINES."

RM

160

GETK$: IFK5=""THEN160

KP

170

IFK$="T"THEN200

DC

180

SYS50450:HEM MARKL

KA

190

GOTO160

GR

200

PRINT"{CLR}{7>TEXT FITT
ER - PLACE TEXT{CYN}"

QB

210

print"{down}insert disk
and enter filename"

XH

220

PRINT" (PRESS [RETURN! A
LONE TO GO BACK.)"

SG

230

SFS="":INPUTSF$:IFSFS="
"THEN60

JF

240

PRINT"{DOWN}ENTER FILEN
AME FOR LEFTOVER TEXT"

DH

250

PRINT" (PRESS [RETURN] A
LONE FOR NO FILE.) "

JA

260

LFS""":INPUTLFS

QR

270

OPEN2,8,2,"0:"+SF$+",S,

R"

PRINT"{CLR}{7}TEXT FITT

GP

280

ER - PLACE TEXTCCYNl"

EF

290

PRINT" {DOWNlMOVE CURSOR
WITH [CRSR] KEYS"

OH

300

PRINT"{D0WN1 [T)=FILL WI
TH TEXT AT CURSOR LOCAT
ION"

HG

310

PRINT"{D0WN} [<] =RETURN

[SPACEjTO THIS SCREEN."
XD 320 PRINT"{2 DOWN} {8).PRESS
{SPACE} [S] AT THIS SCRE
EN TO SAVE OR"
PRINT" {DOWN} PR I NT THE P
AGE, [Fl TO START A NEW

EQ 330
SR 340

PRINT" {DOWNlSOURCE FILE

. iejPRESS ANY OTHER KE

Y TO"
HP 350 PRINT" {D0WN}C0NTINUE PL

ACING TEXT."
AM 360 GETKS: IFK$=""THEN360
AA 370 IFKS="S"ORK$="F"THEN420
CE 380 SYS50683:IFPEEK(49249)=

0THEN360:REM HARKTX, SA

VEST
RP 390 CL0SE2:PRINT"{CLR}END 0

F ";SF$:PRINT"{DOWN}PRE

SS ANY KEY"
SQ 400 GETKS: IFKS=""THEN40a
GM 410 GOTO200
PB 420 IFLF$<>""THENOPEN3,8,3,

"0:"+LFS+",S,W":SYS5115

3: CLOSE 3: REM LFTOVR
EG 430 CL0SE2
KD 440 IFK$="F"THEN200
HD 450 PRINT"{CLR}{7JTEXT FITT

ER - SAVE/PRINT{CYN}"
BF 460 PRINT" {DOWN} [D)=SAVE TO

DISK."
BD 470 PRINT" {DOWN} [P]=PRINT {

BE SURE PRINTER IS READ

Y) ."
AJ 480 PR1NT"{D0WN} [X]=EXIT."
AB 490 GETK$:IFK$<>"D"THEN530
FA 500 INPUT"FILENAME";SFS
DM 510 OPEN2,8,2,"0:"+SFS+",S,

W"
AJ 520 SYS51098:CLOSE2:GOTO4S0

:REH OUTPGE
KQ 530 IFKS<>"P"THEN560
SM 540 REM POKE51133,13:REM TO
ADD RETURN TO EACH LIN

E
FC 550 OPEN2,4,7:SYSS1098:PRIN

T#2:CLOSE2:GOT04 5ei:REM

CSPACE]0UTPGE
HM 560 IFK$<>"X"THEN490
JK 570 END

FITTER.ML

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COMPUTE Q-39

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0^40 COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

MAC VIEW

I

D

on Lancaster is a man with a
mission. Through his PostScript
RoundTable on GEnie, he
preaches the doctrine of book-
on-demand publishing. Lancaster ar-
gues that today's low-cost laser print-
ers make it cheaper to produce books
in smaller quantities than in larger
ones. He also claims that this method
is faster and more flexible than old-
style publishing.

Recent developments in the book
industry have created the need for
book-on-demand publishing. First,
the chain bookstores have driven out
most of the traditional mom-and-pop
operations. While a typical mom-and-
pop store stocks 60,000 titles, a typical
chain store may stock ten copies each
of only 6,000 titles. And because of
the chain stores' collective buying
power, they've bargained for the right
to return any books that haven't sold
within a short period of time.

Second, the IRS is, in effect, pay-
ing publishen to destroy
their books. The IRS '^-•;' '
now requires pubhshers
to carry the full value of
an unsold book rather
than its actual scrap val-
ue. A book returned be-
cause it's no longer
popular has the same tax
value as the new best-
seller about to be
shipped. Not surprising-
ly, publishers are shred-
ding books by the
millions and eliminating
their backlists to keep
their costs down.

Finally, the big pub-
hshing houses are com-
missioning fewer books
as they pay increasingly
larger advances to a
handfiil of megabit au-
thon. There's only so
much money around, so
for every $25 miUion ad-
vance for a blockbuster
sequel, 100 less-com-
mercial books never see
thehght of day.

Tired of swimming against the-
stream, Lancaster decided to self-
publish several of his own computer
books — printing the books one at a
time with his PostScript laser printer.
Using a typical jiffy print shop, he fig-
ured he could produce a thousand
copies of his book for $7,000. But
vkith his laser printer, he could pro-
duce the same thousand copies for
just $5,000, including the amortized
cost of hi sprinter.

More importantly, if he were to
sell only a third of the books, his jiffy
print shop costs would rise to a stag-
gering $21 a book. But with book-on-
demand publishing, his costs remain
constant because he prints each book
as it's needed. The book is stored elec-
tronically, so there's no actual inven-
tory— and no tax penalty. Each book
is on a permanent backlist that can be
called up whenever it's needed. And
the author can make changes at any
time without the additional costs of

printing a new edition.

To keep his costs down, Lancas-
ter refills his own toner cartridges
(lowering his toner costs to less than
0.3 cent per page), uses a duplex (dou-
ble-sided) printer, and does his own
maintenance and minor repair work.

Lancaster is a pioneer, but he
isn't alone. In a number of disciplines,
the dedicated enthusiast can now own
the tools of the trade that used to be
available only to the professional or
the wealthy. Thousands of musicians
are using their Macs with MIDI syn-
thesizers, computer-controlled mix-
ers, and cards that let them make CD-
quality recordings direct to their hard
drives. Computer-literate investors
are using computer-based technical
tools that rival the sophisticated stock-
market programs used by the big bro-
kerage houses. And programs such as
MacroMind Director and MacRender-
Man let individual artists create life-
like animation that goes well beyond
the quality of Saturday-
morning cartoons.

We often hear that
computers are widening
the gap between the
haves and the have-
nots, that parents and
small businesses in poor
neighborhoods can't af-
ford the technology and
will slip farther behind.
While that's a legitimate
concern, the flip side is
also true. With these
powerful tools now
available to a much
larger group, there's a
more broadly based op-
portunity for creativity
and the possibility for a
wider range of opinions.
If Lancaster is right,
we may soon see a small
army of one-person pub-
lishing houses producing
custom books for a small
but eager audience. Come
to think of it, that's how
publishing began nearly
600 years ago.H

^1

O M P U T E M-1

GETnNG
ORGANIZED

STEVEN ANZOVIN

How many times have you looked
for that scrap of paper with the
crucial phone number on it or
searched in every jacket pocket
for an important contact's business
card? If the answer is too often, you
need to get organized, and your Mac-
intosh can help you do it — along with
the right personal database program.

Personal databases manage your
personal and business information —
the names, numbers, addresses, dates,
and lists that you refer to every day.
They're not designed to provide the
heavy-duty data massaging of a fiill-
fledged relational database, such as
4th Dimension, but they're quick,
small, convenient, and much easier to
use. Yet within these hmitations,
there's a wide range of capabilities.

In this article, I'll compare five
popular personal databases for the
Mac: Address Book Plus from Power
Up Software, Dynodex from Portfolio
Systems, QuickDex from Casady &
Greene, Retriever from Exodus Soft-
ware, and Apple's venerable Hyper-
Card. I looked at how each program
displays data on the screen, searches
for and sorts records, imports and ex-
ports data, prints, and autodials.

See How They Ryn

Since a pereonal database (DB) is real-
ly an everyday tool, you've got to be
comfortable with how it presents data
on the screen — what I call the data
view. Most Ukely, you'll want to
choose a DB that corresponds to an
information format you're already fa-
miliar with. If you're used to looking
at real estate listings in list form, for
example, you might want to choose
one of the DBs with a list-type data
view. If you plan to use your DB pri-
marily as an address book, choose one
that looks like a FiloFax.

Address Book Plus has the most
data-view flexibility, offering hst, ad-
dress book, and envelope and label
views, among others. Dynodex lets
you see an address book view and a
list view at the same time. Retriever
shows a list view only, but it has the
best features for manipulating the
view, with resizable and collapsible
columns. QuickDex is freeform — you
have a single 512-character card that
accepts any information in any order
you choose — and you can see cards
from up to eight different QuickDex
files at the same time. HyperCard has
the most customizable data view; you

FIVE PERSONAL DATABASE
PROGRAMS THAT COST UNDER $ 1 00

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE l»-3

can arrange fields, buttons, and pic-
tures in any order within the size lim-
its of a single card, but you have to
acquire the skills to do so.

Hide and Seek

The one thing you'll do most often
with a database is search for a specific
name or address. .^11 of these pro-
grams let you enter a text string and
search for it in every field; the more
structured databases also let you
search only the specific fields that you
name or have previously marked.
Dynodex has the most search op-
tions— find, find next, find previous,
match case, find and change to, find
in marked field(s). and show a list of
frequently searched for strings.

Unless you like to waste time,
fast and efficient searching is a must.
To test search speed, I created a 500-
record text document (57K in size)
and imported it into each database.
On my Mac Ilex, I did a scries of five
timed searches through all fields for a
single four-character word in the last
record and then averaged the results.
If it's fast access you're looking for,
QuickDex is the speed champ. It
found the key word in a fraction of a
second, faster than my stopwatch re-
action time. HyperCard is nearly as
fast, and Address Book Plus is accept-
ably quick at a little over a second.
The tortoise of the bunch is Retriever,
which took at least 1 6 times longer
than QuickDex to find the key word.

Sorting your records in a speci-
fied order, usually by alphabet, is also
a useful feature. All the programs, ex-
cept QuickDex, let you do this on-
screen, and QuickDex can do it as part
of its printing utility, PrintDex. You
can choose which field to sort by — the
last-name field or the company field,
for example — and whether to sort in
ascending, descending, alphabetic, or
integer (by number) order. .Also, Ad-
dress Book Plus, Dynodex. and Re-
triever let you mark fields for sorting
and searching by custom categories.

Import/Export Business

How easily you can get address lists in
and out of a personal database is an-
other factor you'll want to consider.
You may want to import a tickler file
into your personal DB from a spread-
sheet or another database, or you may
want to export an address list to a
word processor for mail merging with
a form letter. Each personal DB has
provisions for importing and export-
ing, though some are easier to use
than others.

Address Book Plus, Dynodex, and
Retriever all can import and export
lab-delimited text files using simple
menu and dialog options. If you're
importing a word processing docu-

ment, for example, the text to go into
each field has to end with a lab, and
each record has to be delimited by a
carriage return. Before importing, you
also have to prepare a new DB file
with the proper number and order of
named fields. Once you're set up, the
conversion should go smoothly.

Importing and exporting to and
from QuickDex is more of a pain,
since it uses a custom file format de-
limited by carriage returns and aster-
isks instead of tabs that other
databases can't create and no word
processing mail merger will recognize.
There's a workaround, which involves
moving QuickDex files to HyperCard
by using the conversion stack includ-
ed with QuickDex {Dynodex and Re-
triever have similar stacks) and then
converting the address stack you've
just made to a tab-delimited text file
using HyperCard's own Export button
on the HyperCard Ideas disk. This is
so cumbersome, however, that you'd
be better off using HyperCard alone,
moving address data with the Import
and Export buttons or writing your
own scripts. HyperCard is also the
only one of these programs that ac-
cepts graphics.

The Right Connections

If you need a personal database,
you're already likely to be using a
paper-based personal organizer like a
Filofax or Day-Timer. .At least that's
the thinking behind Address Book
Plus, QuickDex, and Dynodex, which
can print pages that fit these and other
popular address books; Dynodex can
also print double-sided pages. Quick-
Dex requires a separate printing utili-
ty, PrintDex, which comes in the
QuickDex package. Retriever can only
print a WYSIWYG version of its
datasheet screen display, while Hyper-
Card can print list and column re-
ports, labels, and pictures of cards, but
not organizer pages. Interestingly,
none of these programs are set up to
feed data to the latest incarnation of
the personal organizer, the palmtop
computers such as Sharp's Wizard
and Casio's B.O.S.S.

One thing no paper organizer can
do is dial the phone for you, but most
of these programs can. Select a phone
number, click on the dial button or
choose the Dial menu option, and
your call will go through — assuming
you've got a phone and/or modem
hooked up lo your computer and have
set up the right dialing protocols. Ad-
dress Book Plus has its dialer available
as a D.A, Dynodex and QuickDex
have dialing integrated into the pro-
gram, in HyperCard you have to in-
stall a Dial button or write a script for
that function, and Retriever doesn't
offer dialing at all.

People's Choice

If all you're looking for is a place to
store names and numbers with the
least fuss, QuickDex can't be beat. If
you need a more structured environ-
ment, however, Address Book Plus
and Retriever offer many of the fea-
tures of bigger fiat-file databases, but
at less cost.

The fact that Retriever is a DA,
and thus is accessible from any pro-
gram, is a big advantage over Address
Book Plus, unless you have enough
RAM to run MulliFinder. It's also
easy to modiiy the appearance of Re-
triever'^ list display. On the other
hand, I like Address Book Plus's wider
choice of data views, and it has a
quicker, more responsive feel.

Dynodex is also fast, and with its
flexible printing options, it's well suit-
ed to people who live by a Filofax or
Day-Timer.

And HyperCard, despite its much
larger application size and relatively
inefficient data view, can do much
more than any of the others — if you're
willing to take the lime to learn the
necessary programming skills.

No matter which program you
choose, though, putting your personal
data on your Mac will save you time,
effort, and lost opportunities.

Steven Anzovin is a freelance writer and
consultant based in Amherst. Massachu-
setts. He's the author of Exploring Hyper-
Card and Macintosh Desktop Presenta-
tions, both from COMPUTE Books. E

For more information about the prod-
ucts mentioned in this feature, contact
the software connpanles listed below.

Address Book Plus 1 .0— $89.95

Power Up Software

PO. Box 7600

San Mateo. CA 94403

(415)345-2662

Dynodex 1 .2— $99.95
Portfolio Systems
21 E. Market St.
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
(800) 729-3966

HyperCard 1 .2,5— $49.95
(Free with purchase of Mac)
Apple Computer
20525 Mariani Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408)974-6144

QuickDex 1.4d— $60.00
Casady & Greene
PO. Box 223779
Carmel, CA 93922
(408)824-8716

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The Macintosh changed the na-
ture of word processing by
bringing muhiple fonts and
styles to the computer screen. So
when HyperCard nWo-Mcd only a sin-
gle font and style in any field, many
dyed-in-the-wool Mac users cried
foul. What's so great about a Mac ap-
plication with ontv one text style per
field?

HyperCard 2.0 finally remedies
the situation. Now you can mix fonts,
sizes, and styles in any combination
in any field. These text attributes can
be assigned through the normal
HyperCard Je\\ Style dialog box, un-
der script control, or via two familiar
menus. Font and Style.

.'i^nother big complaint came
from those who hoped that the hyper
in HyperCard stood for hypertext ca-
pabilities but found the application
short on real hypertext features.

In its simplest form, hypertext
can let you click on a word — a scien-
tific term, for example — and be
whisked away to a glossary that de-
fines and illustrates the word. In hy-
pertext parlance, we say that the word
in the field is hot,

.4s simple as this seems, Hyper-
Card didn'l have a device to tie script
actions directly to a single word in a
field. You could paste buttons over
words and thus easily find where the
mouse was clicked. But if a word had
been moved within the field during
editing, the button wouldn't slick to
the word, and the button could even
end up over the wrong word.

Enter three new functions in
HyperCard 2.0: clickText. click-
Chunk, and clickLine. To use any of
these functions, you just lock the field
that contains the text with the hyper-
text capabilities. Then you can use
these new functions in the field's
mouseUp script to cause some hyper-
text action.

For example, let's say you're writ-
ing a HyperCard stack about astrono-
m)' and want use the term azimuth
without having to define it within the
field. Lock the field and put the fol-
lowing in the field script.

on mouseUp

if the clickText is "azimuth" then
go to card "azimuth definition"
end mouseUp

Then create a card called azimuth
definition that defines it and has an il-
lustrative drawing, and your main dis-
cussion won't be cluttered with
duplicate definitions.

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The clickChunk function is a bit
more obscure if you're not well versed
in HyperTalk terminology. A chunk is
a HyperTalk expression that describes
a particular segment of text — both
within a field or within a HyperTalk
variable. It can be defined in terms of
characters (chars), words, or lines.

For example, if card field 1 begins
"HyperCard 2.0 allows multiple styles,
fonts, and type sizes within the same
field," HyperCard would be described
as "char I to 9 of card field I ." Simi-
larly, a word is defined as a number of
characters separated by spaces, thus
HyperCard is "vjord 1 of card field I."

These chunk expressions provide
the key to altering the font, size, or
style of part of the text within a field.
For example, if you wish to change
the style of the word HyperCard in the
above example to italic, you would
use "set the textStyle of char 1 to 9 of
card field 1 to italic." You could also
refer to "word 1" in place of "chars I
to 9" to accomplish the same thing.

The concept of the line can be a
relatively elusive chunk expression. It
doesn't matter how many physical

lines appear in a field on the screen; a
line is any number of characters with
a carriage return (ASCII 1 3) at the
end, It can be several physical lines.

In our example, even though the
text wraps after the word multiple,
line 1 would be the entire sentence be-
cause there's no carriage return until
the end of the third physical line. The
clickLine function simply returns the
number of the line that was clicked in
a locked field. It returns "line 1 of
card field 1" no matter which word in
the sentence you click on.

The new style, group, is another
great feature for those doing hypertext
applications. Using our example, let's
say you want both desktop and desk-
top publishing to be hot. If you use
only the three functions I described
above, when the user clicks on desk-
top, you would have no way of know-
ing whether the selected word was
next to publishing.

The group text style solves that.
By selecting both desktop and publish-
ing together and choosing group from
the Style menu, the clickText function
returns both words together if either is
clicked on — thus making it easy to
distinguish which desktop was selected.

The major drawback to these new
hypertext enabling functions is that
they don't provide a standard device
for users to identify a word that's hot.

That is, a word can be hot and
look just like every other word. One
HyperTalk programmer might use
bold text to identify a hot word, while
another might use italic, and another
might use underiining. ToolBook, an
application from .Asymetrix for PCs
and compatibles that runs under Win-
dows 3.0, has standardized hot text
by drawing a box around every hot
word — a device not available in
HyperCard.

With this one caveat, HyperCard
2.0 has come a long way toward being
the hypertext application that many
educators have been looking for.

Roger Wood has worked as editor of
l-lyperLink Magazine and managing editor
of Home Computer Magazine. m

M-« COMPUTE

DECEMBER 1990

APPLE PICKS

GREGG KEfZER

Christmas already? That means
my cards and letters need to go
out — now! Wait, I don't have
time to write a hundred letters
and still make a living and have a life.

The solution? Mass mailings. I've
taken a page out of my Congressman's
piaybook — his slick newsletter regu-
larly hits my mail slot to remind me
what a great guy he is. I've gone high-
tech in order to keep in touch with far-
flung friends and distant relatives.

I know, I know. You're dead set
against anything that reminds you of
those gruesome mimeographed holi-
day letters you got years ago. Don't
worry. Everyone will love your mes-
sage if the medium is nicely designed
and attractively illustrated.

I've been designing, writing, and
mailing a holiday newsletter for years.
Maybe it's the only written communi-
cation some people get from my fam-
ily all year, but it hits the family
highlights, it's fun to read, and best of
all, it looks good.

Until this year, I've created our
family newsletter on a Macintosh. No
more. This year, I switched to Graphic
Writer HI (Seven Hills Software, 1310
Oxford Road, Tallahassee, Florida
32304; $149.95), a great desktop pub-
lishing program for the IIgs. Like
most other desktop publishing pro-
grams, Graphic Writer works with
frames, which are boxes you build to
hold text or graphics.

Designing a four-page newsletter
with Graphic Writer took less than 30
minutes. The process is easy because
of features like color-coded column
and snap-to guides and master pages
you define to set up margins and page
numbers. Onscreen rulers ensure
you've got things lined up right, and
the program quickly sets up a multi-
column format.

Other topnoich features include
frame linking, which automatically
flows text from one column to another,
and text wrapping, which allows words
to cunningly wind around illustrations.

Thou^ typing text in Graphic
Writer isn't as unbearably slow as in
some other Apple IIgs programs, I

still prefer to write with something
faster, like AppleWorks. Graphic Writ-
er really shines here, for its translation
capabilities are most impressive, I
wrote with AppleWorks 3.0 at blitz-
krieg speed, then poured the copy into
a Graphic Writer \ayout with bold-
facing and underlining intact. Nice.

A desktop publishing program on
the IIgs wouldn't be much without
graphics or color. Graphic Writer
doesn't let you down here, either. The
built-in graphics tools are nothing spe-
cial— the typical pencil, brush, eraser,
magnifying glass, and geometric
shape-makers — but the program
makes it as easy to import graphics as
it does text.

Pri/jt Shop (both the classic and
the IIgs versions) and single-, double-,
and super-hi-res images can all be
grabbed and placed within Graphic
W^/7'/er documents. Because Prim Shop
graphics are so easy to fmd, I scattered
several throughout my newsletter.

Color is often vastly overrated in
Apple IIgs software, and, though I
still think it has limited application, I
did find a way to put Graphic Writer'^
color capabilities to work for me. I
spotted the first page of the newsletter
with color, primarily in the masthead
(the name of the newsletter) and a
great graphic, and then printed it out
on an ImageWriter II.

For a moment, 1 was stumped —
my printer would be tied up past
Christmas printing 1 00 originals. Then

I remembered that a local copy shop —
a Kinko's outlet — had a color copier.
Down to the copy shop I went, and in
a half hour I had a four-color newslet-
ter (all right, just the first page, but at
those prices, I couldn't afford more).

Graphic Writer comes packed
with extras, such as a disk full of new
fonts and two disks of clip art. I didn't
have much use for the fonts — I like to
Slick with classic font families such as
Times and Helvetica — but the clip art
was terrific. I used the map of the U.S.
to show the family's 1990 travels.

Printing is slow, really slow.
There's not much you can do about
that. I didn't think much of the pro-
gram's dot-matrix output anyway, so I
headed to the local .Apple dealer to
make master copies of my newsletter's
remaining three pages on a Laser-
Writer NT. Ever\'thing worked flaw-
lessly, and the output was super.

Graphic Writer 111 is fast and fea-
ture-heavy, yet friendly. It's the first
Apple IlGS-specific desktop publish-
ing package I've been willing to rec-
ommend, and it made my annual
newsletter creation chore as much fun
for me as I hope its reading is for my
friends and relatives.

If you're launching your first-ever
holiday newsletter, here are some
things to keep in mind.

• Use at least ten-point type. Twelve-
point is better, especially if you're
sending the newsletter to anyone
over 35. No one likes to squint.

• To personalize each newsletter, create
an empty frame on the last page of
your newsletter and save the file as
MASTER. Write short, individual
notes to each recipient; then import
them into the empty frame. Remem-
ber that you'll have to save each
newsletter as a separate file and print
out that page for each newsletter.

• If you have access to a scanner digi-
tize a family photo and place the re-
sulting graphic on the second page,
above a frame labeled Staff. Even if
the picture is crude, your readers will
get a kick out of it. h

DECEMBER 1990

COMPUTE H-7

EWS & NOTES

New Nitpicker

If you're one of the 20,000 Mac users who purchased Grammatik Mac,
you're in luck. Reference Software is offering a free upgrade to version
2.0, which features a new interface and expanded word processor sup-
port. If you haven't registered your copy of version 1 .0, you can call the
company on its toll-free line and provide the serial number from the dis-
tribution disk.

Commie Network Exposed

Old-style communism has undergone radical changes in the last two
years. Now the Soviets are linking their computers in a way that would
have made Karl Marx proud. Currently, five deputies in the Soviet Par-
liament have their Macs networked together, and seven other Macs are
being used by the Parliament's technical staff.

In order to increase the Pariiament's efficiency, the government has
commissioned the Moscow-based Interproject to create a Mac-based
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The most recent version of the Mac
operating system has been System
6.0.5, and the new low-cost Macs
are shipping with System 6.0.7. So
what happened to 6.0.6?

Apple had planned to release
System 6.0.6 with the changes
needed for the three new Macs— in-
cluding a new Sound Manager — but
it discovered two nasty bugs at the
last minute. The first can cause a
Mac to act as though it's no longer
connected to a printer or AppleShare
server. The second can cause a Mac
LC to ignore the keyboard until the
mouse is moved.

The bugs have been fixed in
System 6.0.7, and Apple has "re-
worked" its inventory to include the
newer system. The company is ship-
ping 6.0.6 to Europe with an INIT that
fixes the bugs while it works to com-
plete a European version of 6.0.7.

Running
Late

Apple finally admitted what most
industry watchers have suspected
for months — System 7,0 won't
ship until 1991 or, as Apple put
it, "the first half of calendar
1 99 1 ." Alpha versions have been
available to developers since
May, but the first beta version
wasn't expected to be ready
before October — a full year be-
hind schedule.

While some developers will
have to delay their new products
once again, Apple insists the new
system software will be worth it.
According to Roger Heinen, Ap-
ple's vice president of software
engineering, "With the additional
feedback from our developers, we
are confident that System 7.0 will
shatter traditional notions of
what personal computers can do."

Talk
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computer or monitor. It plugs into
either of the two serial ports and
comes with software that lets your
Mac recognize the unit as a standard
sound-input device.

The MacMic is available for
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News & Notes by David English

REVIEWS

REDISCOVER A CLASSIC • CREATE PRESENTATIONS
UNLEASH ARTISTIC TALENTS • FIND THE RIGHT WORD

WORDSTAR 6.0

Big but not unwieldy, powerful
but not too complex, packed
with desktop publishing features
and advanced integration capa-
bilities for power users — WordStar
6.0 is all these things and more. If you
know the H brt/Sfar interface but
haven't taken a look at the program in
a few years, you'll welcome its new
power and versatility. If you're un-
familiar with this word processing
classic, fasten your seatbelt.

Over the years, WordStar has
grown from a friendly little CP/M
program occupying part ofa disk to
an MS-DOS power package that
comes on 21 floppy disks. What keeps
WordStar fast, sleek, and manage-
able— rather than lumbering and for-
bidding, as you might expect — is a
sensible set of strategies, including se-
lective installation of features, numer-
ous default settings, clever memor>'
management, selective help levels,
and nesting and chaining capabihties.

WordStar's lower of powerful
disks contains all you'd expect in a
first-rate word processor: spelling
checker, thesaurus, cut and paste, find
and replace, undelete, macros, mail
merge, page preview, footnotes, end-
notes, word counting, and a multitude
of formatting options. Numerous ad-
ditional features enhance and simplify'
your routine word processing, such as
vertical centering (no more counting
lines to center your correspondence),
printing from the keyboard (no more
going to typewriters to address enve-
lopes), and one I particularly like, the
definitions dictionars-, which helps
you pick just the right word from the
thesaurus. An extra-window capabili-
ty lets you compare documents or
passages in the same document and
cut and paste wiih ease. Then there
are WordStar's dot commands, which
control ever>'thing from headers and
footers to page numbering and sheet

feeding. In short, you have tremen-
dous control over the writing process
and product.

More advanced features make
this a program you can grow into.
WordStar lets you insert work sheets
from Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony, or Quat-
tro, as well as files from DBase. The
Inset program included with the pack-
age puts graphics anywhere in your
text. You can use a variety of fonts if
you have a printer that supports them.
WordStar supports scalable fonts on
the HP LaserJet III, Canon LBP-4,
and PostScript printers; and you can
kern if you have PostScript or certain
HP LaserJet printers. Save time with
WordStar paragraph styles, which let

Check graphics, fonts, and more in
WordStar's Advanced Page Preview.

you preset print attributes, margins,
tabs, line height, fonts, and more. In-
stead of starting over with every docu-
ment, just choose an appropriate
paragraph style. WordStar's page pre-
\'iew lets you see how fonts, graphics,
and other features of a document will
look before you go to the trouble of
printing. As you can see, these are fea-
tures that people in business can take
advantage of to create highly polished,
professional documents that get results.
As if all this weren't enough, you
also get several companion programs.
With MailList, you create form letters
and print envelopes, labels, Rolodex
cards, and reports (for example, a

phone list). PC-Outline helps you plan
writing and keep track of your work;
ProFinder is a handy DOS shell; Star
Exchange allows file conversions be-
tween WordStar and several other
word processors; and TelMerge is a
sophisticated telecommunications
package that allows file transfers, E-
mail, and script files for easy access to
online services.

Obviously, everyone won't take
advantage of every feature of the pro-
gram, and that's why you shouldn't let
all the disks disconcert you. Seven of
the disks contain printer information,
and you'll use only a small part of it.
What's more, the straightforward in-
stallation program lets you install only
what you need. There's even a way to
set up a bare-bones version of the pro-
gram to run on a two-floppv svslem in
384K (Run README.COM),' al-
though the program is really opti-
mized for use with a hard disk.

A mere novice can take advan-
tage of this full-featured program,
thanks to a great tutorial disk, a choice
of interfaces, built-in defaults, and ex-
cellent help and documentation. Be-
ginners will want to install the
program to use the pull-down menus,
which allow you to highlight and
choose instead of using the old con-
trol-key combinations. WordStar
comes with default settings for nearly
every feature — even several para-
graph styles — so that beginners won't
have to change or customize settings
till they're ready.

Context-sensitive online help is
always available, and WordStar pro-
vides four excellent manuals. I partic-
ulariy like the step-by-step examples
of applications, which showed me
how to easily create a newsletter.

The classic menus are still there
to give you the touch-typing speed
and convenience for which WordStar
is famous, and you can still set your
help level to include or exclude partic-
ular menus. You can also use your
function keys to execute oft-used

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commands. Throughout the program,
WordStar ofFen a tremendous degree
of flexibihty, allowing you to custom-
ize it according to your likes and
needs.

Clever memory management
keeps WordStar fast, despite its great
size. It resides in memory, and if you
have enough memory, the spelling
checker and text files can run RAM
resident. With enough memory, you
can print one file while editing anoth-
er. A RAM usage display helps you
make the best use of the program.

If you work with long documents
and dread navigating long files and
waiting for saves or finds, you'll love
the nesting and chaining feature. It
ties together several small files and
provides continuous pagination; this
feature has saved me untold time and
effort. WordStar also lets you place
markers in files and specify a particu-
lar page to move to so that you won't
waste time creeping paragraph by
paragraph through your document.
Need an index? WordStar can index
selected words or ever>' word in a doc-
ument. The program can also simplify
your creation of a table of contents.

Of all the versions of the program
I've used, this is the fastest and easi-
est. If there's any significant short-
coming, it's the lack of better mouse
support; only a Logitech mouse driver
comes with the program, and you can
use the mouse only with menus. This
may discourage some users, but not
the touch-tj'pists who've enjoyed and
remained faithful to this program for
years. This latest version of WordStar
makes it a contender among high -end
word processors. It might very well at-
tract new converts.

MIKEHUDNALL

Ease of Use

Documentation ....

Features

Innovation

•-***

.... •*•••

***•

.... •*•*•

B

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MIRROR \\\ 2.0

Softklone's original Mirror v/as
designed to be a clone of Cross-
talk, a popular business commu-
nications program. The latest
version of Mirror, although complete-
ly compatible with Crosstalk XVI,
offers a number of substantial im-
provements: additional file-transfer
protocols, MNP support, a built-in
text editor, a background mode,
mouse support, and much more. Best
of all. Mirror III costs less than Cross-
talk XVI ($ 1 49 rather than $ 1 95).

Mirror Ill's status screen lets you
view parameter settings and includes
a command line for entering two-
letter mnemonic commands, such as
NU (Number), CA (CApture), RX
(Receive XMODEM), and EM
(EMulate).

Mirror ill's Dialing Directory features
easy-to-use pull-down menus.

The dialing directory provides
easy access to a list of phone numbers
and can indicate system names, trans-
fer rates (such as 1200 or 2400 bits per
second), formats (parity, data bits, du-
plex, and stop bits), and scripts (if
you're using them). Mirror provides
an unlimited number of directories
and entries within directories and lets
you chain-dial as many as 30 entries
at a time. You can access the com-
mands necessary for just about any
online session with the easy-to-use
pull-down menus.

Beginners will especially like the
neivuser option, which will write a
script to get you online with databases
you're currently using, such as
CompuServe, NewsNet, Delphi, MCI
Mail, and Dow Jones. For systems not
listed, you can use the learn com-
mand, which watches you log on to a
system and writes a log-on script.

Experienced users will appreciate
the variety of file-transfer protocols,
including XMODEM, YMODEM,
Kermit, Crosstalk, Hayes, Compu-
Ser\'e-B, and CommPressor. Support
for ZMODEM is included through a
shareware program ($20 to register)
that's provided with the package.

Mirror's PRISM script language
is an expanded version of Crosstalk
XVI's script language and is upwardly
compatible. PRISM'S most significant
improvement over Crosstalk's lan-
guage is its ability to run script pro-
grams in the background.

There are many other features,
including the ability to capture all or
part of an online session to memory,
disk, or printer. A backscroU com-
mand lets you recall text that has
scrolled off the screen. A host mode
lets other computers call your com-
puter, leave messages, and down- and
upload files. You can also redefine
your computer's function keys.

Mirror III is weU supported with
frequent software upgrades and an ex-
cellent BBS. It has a 60-day money-
back guarantee, and it gives you a lot
for your money. You're not likely to
outgrow this program.

DAVID ENGLISH

Ease of Use

***•

Documentation . , , .

Features

InnovatioD ........

*•**

••**

•••

^

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SAD BIOOD

Origin's Bad Blood presents a bar-
ren postapocalyptic wasteland in
which the mutes (mutants) and
humes (humans) maintain a dan-
gerously delicate balance of power.
Because an all-out war would be disas-
trous for the mutes, you're sent on a
mission to find out just what's got the
humes so "wadded up."

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To accomplish this, you have a
choice of three characters: Varrigg, a
powerfu! mule who reportedly once
slagged a whole band of Kejeks single-
handedly; Jakka, a shivvy slicer who
can down a buzzar at 40 paces with a
blast from her eye beam; or Dekker,
the only human ever bom to the mutes.
Set out from the village of Mardok
and travel throughout the plains, in-
teracting with mutes from surround-
ing villages and battling the numerous
beasts of the Plains along the way.
Fortunately, there are plenty of weap-
ons and ammo available on the Plains,
including nades, sodoffs, buzooks,
oozees, clubs, and vibrablades.

As you play Bad Blood, a detailed
overhead view of your character ap-
pears on the screen of an ancient tele-
vision set abandoned on the Plains.

Use an ancient television in Bad Blood to
make choices (or your character.

The TVs knobs describe your
choices — Talk, Inventory, Examine,
Use, and Options (Pause, Save, Load,
and so on). To the right of the TV is a
green bottle filled with water. The wa-
ter level serves as a visual indicator of
your state of health. Finally, message
windows below the television set con-
tain important text and dialogue. Bad
Blood \ises a menu-driven conversa-
tion system that lets you choose from
a range of topics appropriate to your
progress in the game.

The game comes with a 20-page
manual that includes a map of the
Plains and a list of Mutant Chat
terms, a reference card, and a copy of
Thale's Comprehensive Guide to the
Beasts & Savages of the Plains. This
foldout not only describes the beasts
you'll encounter on the plains, but it
also serves as copy protection for the
program. Before starting, for instance,
you must answer a question such as
Where does a Bushbug usually hide?

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(which can be toggled off once you've
had enough of a good thing). Up to
three games can be saved in progress,
but unfortunately, beginning a new
game erases all of your previously
saved games. This is the only fault in
an otherwise very playable RPG.

BOBGUERRA

Playability **••

Documentation ***

Originality ***

Graphics ****

Sound ••••

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HOME LAWYER

any of the most important de-
cisions you'll make require
expert legal assistance. Unfor-
tunately, legal advice can be ex-
pensive and hard to understand. To
the rescue comes Home Lawyer from
Meca Ventures, a user-friendly expert
program that helps you create simple
legal documents and special letters.
Home La u'ver generates docu-
ments in plain English from your re-
sponses to simple questions. You can
respond directly onscreen or first print
a paper work sheet and then transfer
information from the work sheet to
the screen. To help you out, the pro-
gram offers response choices (some-
times samples); these appear on the
screen and in the very clear and
complete manual provided with the
program.

With Home Lawyer, you can cre-
ate simple legal documents, including
wills, powers of attorney, residential
leases, promissory notes, bills of sale,
and independent contractor agree-

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ments. Special letten the program
helps you write include demands for
money owed, bad-check notices, and
requests for credit reports.

The public has always had the
right to create legal documents with-
out attorneys; but the legalese that
comprises most laws, forms, and in-
structions makes writing legal docu-
ments an arduous — and sometimes
dangerous — task. Home Lawyer's
greatest strength is the fact that it's
user friendly. It allows you to do for
yourself much of what you once relied
on lawyers to do for you.

Consequently, Home Lawyer car-
ries various disclaimers, including an
initial comprehensive one which
states that the manufacturer does not
guarantee that the program is valid
when used, will lead to the desired re-
sult, or will carry out the intentions of
the user. It also includes a directory of
State Bar Associations and notes
when to consult an attorney.

Home Lawyer allows no custom-
izing of documents other than in re-
sponse to its questions. I found this
particularly frustrating because its
durable power of attorney provides
consent for medical and persona! care.
Powers of attorney for medical care
are valuable documents that should
be left for babysitters, neighbors, and
schools responsible for children when
the parents are unavailable. However,
Home Lawyer's version incorporates
the right to make decisions regarding
personal care, support, maintenance,
and living arrangements, as well — vir-
tually giving custody to the caretaker.

.41 a list price of $ 1 1 9, 1 would've
expected more choices or more ability
to customize. Perhaps future versions
will correct these problems by expand-
ing the types of documents which can
be created. Then you could truly say
that you had a lawyer in your PC.

SUSAN PARATO

Ease of Use •*••

Documentation ****

Features **

Innovation **

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Witi) . . . iliiii it

The Russian game-making master
Alexey Pajitnov is at it again. The
creator of the now-legendary Te-
iris and its standout follow-up
Welltris has written another one —
Faces . . . Tris ///.

Having exhausted, in his two
earlier games, the dimensions in
which to manipulate falling blocks,
Pajitnov brings forth a new concept.
In Faces, blocks still fall against a
graphic mural background. The differ-
ence is that each block contains one of
five pieces of a face. Your job is to pile
up a chin, lips, a nose, eyes, and a top
of the head in the right order. You get
more points if they happen to be from
the same person, but mixed faces are
OK., too. A face constructed out of or-
der turns into a marble block, which
obstructs further progress.

See how your skills stack up in Faces.

It sounds simple — and it is. Sim-
plicity and elegance are Pajitnov' s
trademarks. But whereas his two earli-
er hits resembled interactive creative
puzzles, Faces too often resembles an
animated jigsaw puzzle without the
interactive variety of Tetris or Welltris.

The 60 faces themselves are a de-
lightful mix of historical figures (Na-
poleon), whimsical monsters, hoHday
faces (Santa Claus, Uncle Sam), and a
variety of cultural images (Mona Lisa,
Shakespeare). Only 16 of the faces are
identified in the manual as part of the
documentation-based copy protection.

Watch for some amusing touches
in the faces. Gorbachev's eyes shift
back and forth as they fall down the
screen, for example, and there are other
small, unexpected bits of animation in
the faces.

The graphic mural backdrops are

intricate gray-scaled American scenes
and patterns matching the set effaces
used in each of the ten levels. The
vanity board and several sign-on
screens use the full VGA color palette,
as do the faces themselves.

Faces is a good game with excel-
lent and entertaining graphics and
enough challenge to make it worth
playing. It faces an uphill battle, how-
ever, in its unenviable position as the
third in the Tetris series. What may be
more compelling than the game itself
is anticipating what Pajitnov will
accomplish the next time around —
especially if he abandons falling blocks.

RICHARD O.M.ANN

Playability

Ek)cumentation
Originality. . . .
Graphics

, . ••*

. , ••*
. *••*
. *••*

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alleys, on back streets, and along
the main thoroughfare, known only as
The Street. This is a criminal neigh-
borhood, seamy and dangerous. This
is the setting of Infocom's Circuit's
Edge.

Based on the Audran stories of
George Alec Effinger, the game is
played from the perspective of Au-
dran, an addictive, not really likable
sort, whose talents and inclinations
continually bring him to the edge of
disaster. The most successful players
will learn how to see the world
through Audran's jaundiced eyes.

Infocom has done a fine job of
making the Budayeen, the game's cen-
terpiece, come alive. More than any of
its earlier attempts at graphic adven-
tures, this one communicates a real
sense of place. You can stroll along
the garish Street, dropping into vari-

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ous places of business, or skulk
through darkened alleys where any-
thing can happen. Onscreen mapping
helps you get a feel for the game's lo-
cale. The Budayeen is the story, in
many ways, although there's naturally
a problem-solving plot to navigate
through.

The game's manual includes a
map of the Budayeen. complete with a
directop.' and addresses of various
businesses and establishments. Three
pages of hints help you through the
tougher problems. Lists of characters
and a glossary also contain hints and
tips that can be exploited during play.

LI luh MA^^ Lxn

In the seamy setting of Infocom's Cir-
cuit's Edge, there are many dangers.

While Circuit's Edge can be
played via the keyboard, the program
works best with a mouse. Effinger's
characters can use technology to alter
or enhance personality by way of
"moddies" — modules inserted into
sockets in the skull. "Daddies" are
modules that extend characters' pow-
ers and abilities. Audran can use dad-
dies to dampen pain, fatigue, and so
on. There is, as players discover, a
price to be paid for using modules.

Circuit's Edge is more adult than
most software, and parents might
want to consider this before passing
the program to preadolescent kids.
The Street is populated with drug
dealers and prostitutes, among others,
and it's possible to interact with them.
Admittedly, taking drugs or engaging
in illicit sex results in losing points,
but the distinction may be too fine for
younger players. I'd rate this game at
least PG- 1 3, perhaps even R.

While Circuit 's Edge suffers from
some of the problems typical to ad-
venture games — repetitive dialogue
loops, scenes that rest on puzzles rath-
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There's little that's smutty about the
game's adult scenarios; rather, they
represent the context of the Budayeen,
and do so well. Circuit 's Edge is the
most sophisticated of Infocom's re-
cent crop of games and a good indica-
tion that the company may make the
transition from text-based adventures
to graphical storytelling.

KEITH FERRELL

Playability ••**

Documentation *••*

Originality ****

Graphics ****

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COMPUTER

The MC-400 Mobile Computer
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with its Macintosh-like graphic
user interface (GUI), multitasking
operating system, and nifty touch pad.

Weighing only 4.3 pounds and
measuring about 2 X 12.5 X 9 inches,
the MC offers an acceptable 640 X
400 LCD screen (black letters, no
backlight). It has 256K EPROM and
256K RAM, with connectors for op-
tions: Fast Serial Link, microphone
and speaker, and 12V adapter.

The MC offers great battery life —
60 hours of continuous use with eight
AA alkali nes and 8 hours with NiCads.
When the computer is inactive for five
minutes, it turns off to save power.
To be valuable, though, a non-
compatible must offer distinct advan-
tages outweighing the benefits of

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compatibility. It must be friendly with
PCs without undue additional effort
and expense.

The MC's built-in software looks
great but lacks power. The text proces-
sor doesn't count words, check spell-
ing, or display the current line and
character position. The diary is useful,
but the monthly calendar displays
Monday through Sunday (instead of
Sunday through Saturday). The alarm
function works but lacks a snooze fea-
ture. The free-form database is simple
but not very powerful.

The Psion MC-400 accepts up to four
solid-stale disl<s at one time.

The MC is hurt by a general lack
of standardization. Although it includes
a standard parallel port, you have to
provide the instructions that let your
printer take advantage of special capa-
bilities, such as bold or italic print. (A
company spokesman says that a word
processor to be sold separately will
contain printer drivers. — Ed. ) It in-
cludes an RS-232 serial port and file-
transfer software for sending files to a
PC, but you must use a noncompati-
ble cable with a round, miniature seri-
al plug (not included).

The MC uses solid-state disks
(SSDs), which are really just memory
but which emulate disks. The MC ac-
cepts up to four SSDs at once, avail-
able in several styles and sizes: Flash
EPROM and RAM (each up to 512K)
and ROM (2MB). Psion offers an SSD
drive for a PC.

The full-sized keyboard has a
good feel and layout but isn't exactly
like a PC keyboard; some of the sym-
bol keys are swapped. A numeric key-
pad is part of the alphabet keys.

At first the touch pad is fun, but
it can be difficult. It's easy to move
the pointer but hard to be accurate.

The MC-400 is unique, but for
about the same amount of money you
can get a lightweight PC compatible
with more memory and standard key-
board, connectors, keys, and floppy
drive. It may not have the MC-400's
visual appeal, battery life, touch pad,
and futuristic memory disks, but it
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FOR THE SAT

We expect athletes to hone their
talents through practice, yet
we throw our kids to the
wolves when it comes to help-
ing them prepare for the Scholastic
Aptitude Test (SAT). Davidson's
Your Personal Trainer for the SAT
package offers students a way to pre-
pare for this all-important exam.

The program builds vocabulary
and reading skills as well as areas of
math covered in the SAT. If students
adhere to the 6-7 hour weekly train-
ing schedule suggested in the manual,
they should be able to tackle SAT
problems and considerably increase
their chances for success.

Since I'm not planning to take
the SAT anytime soon but my 1 5-
year-old son will take it this year, I let
him use the program to help in his
preparation for the test. After running
through a few practice sessions in the

Visitor mode, he felt less threatened
by the types of questions asked on the
SAT.

The Visitor mode allows you to
browse through the questions asked
on the SAT without actually taking a
test. It's a nonthreatening way to de-
velop a feel for the kinds of questions
asked, and learning how to approach
certain kinds of questions is as valu-
able as mastering the content areas of
an exam. If you choose the wrong an-
swer, you're told why the answer is
wrong. Picking the right answer
prompts an explanation of why the
answer is right.

Included with the program is a
companion book called How to Take
the SAT, which includes several prac-
tice exams. .After every practice exer-
cise, you can look at the answers and
explanations in the book. The Assess-
ment option in the program lets you
evaluate your progress. You'll get a
score and a personalized analysis of
each test. Then you can get a personal-
ized training schedule based on your
strengths and weaknesses.

The training schedule recom-
mends several methods for building
strengths and minimizing weaknesses,
methods such as making flash cards
for vocabulary words or math prob-
lems missed. Your training may in-
clude reviewing a specific topic on a
page in the book, or you may need to
work through one of the training ac-
tivities using the program's onscreen
hints and the glossar>'.

I won't know for sure whether
this training has helped my son until
he takes the S.AT later in the year, but
I plan to make sure he completes the
entire training schedule. I'll keep re-
minding him of what a football coach
tells his players: Games are won or
lost on the practice field.

JOYCE SIDE.S

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REVIEWS

Amiga

Commodore stepped out in 1984
when it bought a little company
with a revolutionar>' personal
computer. It saw in this machine
a price/performance potential offered
by no other PC and successfully
brought it to market in 1985. The
Amiga has since made interesting in-
roads in video production, but it has
really stayed alive thanks to the en-
thusiasm of evangelists and a couple
of zingers Hke DeliLxePaini and Digh
View — splendid products but not
quite strong enough to push the
Amiga ahead.

Commodore just made another
innovative move, this time in soft-
ware. Amiga Vision, which has been
two years in the making, may well do
for the Amiga what desktop publish-
ing did for Apple's Macintosh — put it
on the map.

AmigaVision is an authoring sys-
tem. It's designed to help people with
no programming experience put to-
gether interactive audiovisual presen-
tations, the component parts of which
have been produced with other tools.
It helps you put together things like
touchscreen information systems, cor-
porate business presentations, educa-
tional reports, quizzes and documen-
taries, and even animated Christmas
cards with MIDI-produced back-
ground music. It does this by combin-
ing data stored on floppy and hard
disks, videocasettes, and videodiscs.

This technique is called multi-
media (the industry's latest buzzword)
and involves melding components
from various sources into a single pre-
sentation. You'll need paint and ani-
mation programs, digitizers, and
music composition and word process-
ing software in order to create those
presentations. You can also include
prerecorded sounds and images from
videodiscs, videocasettes, and MIDI
synthesizers. AmigaVision helps mold
these elements into a unified presenta-
tion by tying them together; organiz-
ing their sequence, flow, and timing;
and adding mouse-selectable hit boxes

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SO that users of your presentation can
control it interactively. AmigaVision
presentations can also accept input
from the keyboard.

AmigaVision helps you do all this
with surprising ease. In general, after
you've created your components and
decided how you want to present
them, you select appropriate ^m/^a-
Vision icons by dragging them from a

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Commodore's point-of-sale system uses
AmigaVision and a videodisc player to
show off the Amiga to potential buyers.

box at the bottom of the screen to a
large, scrollable grid above. It's on this
grid that you arrange the icons in logi-
cal groups (called parent and child),
tying them to your components with
specific parameters entered through
requesters and pull-down menus. You
must know what you want to do and
which icons do what, but Amiga-
Vision comes with one of the best
manuals I've ever seen and two tutori-
al disks.

I made an interactive presenta-
tion incorporating things I found lying
around my house and hard drive. I
used Amiga Vision on my A2000 with
3 MB of RAM, the new Super Agnus,
WorkBench 2.0, a VCR and genlock,
and a MIDI music synthesizer. My
presentation consisted of three prima-
ry parts: a home video of the kids, a
database of text-based articles and
screen shots, and a slide show with
background music.

I superimposed stationary and
animated captions over the video
with flashy color fonts. Amiga Vision
will put ANIM5-format animations
(but not ANIM brushes) over video

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and will synchronize internally pro-
duced sound effects as well.

I made a database to call up arti-
cles and reviews I've written, display-
ing the text with screen shots. I had
planned on using a variety of fonts for
the text, but that became tedious, as
special codes for both fonts and screen
format must be inserted into the text
by hand. You can move up or down
through the text by a line or screen at
a time, but Amiga Vision won't auto-
matically scroll your text.

Then I fashioned a slide show
that included digitized photographs of
the kids in HAM overscan. I moved
between the pictures using several of
the great wipes and fades available in
AmigaVision. I added SMUS back-
ground music using sampled 8SVX-
format instruments. When I turned to
add MIDI, I found that AmigaVision
plays a MIDI-connected synthesizer
by sending a SMUS score out the seri-
al port, which works but isn't entirely
satisfactory. And it plays only four
voices at once — MIDI or internal but
not both. Shortcomings such as these
could be overcome by launching ex-
ternal programs, such as the Sonix
music player, through AfnigaVision's
CLI or ARexjc interfaces.

I made my presentation interac-
tive through use of a main screen
(made with DPa/n?) of images repre-
senting each section. Using Amiga-
Vision, I easily made hit boxes out of
these irregular-shaped images so that
the corresponding section would be
activated when the mouse was clicked
anywhere on it. I also made my sec-
tions available on a pull-down menu.

I had little trouble making my
presentation perform the way I had
envisioned it. The problems I encoun-
tered were sins of omission — things
AmigaVision cannot do. My Amiga-
Vision wish list includes a freestand-
ing runtime module so others can
enjoy presentations without owning
AmigaVision, ANIM brush support,
smooth-scrolling text, a compatible
WYSIWYG word processor for fonts
and text formatting, true MIDI sup-
port, and joystick support.

These wishes may come true.
Commodore is working on Amiga-
Vision 2.0 now. It should be available
in 1991, and I'm told that the compa-
ny is considering adding these features
and more. Even as it stands, the vari-
ety of media. Amiga Vision can incor-

porate and its extraordinary ease of
use make it truly innovative. By com-
parison, HyperCard on the Macintosh
seems clumsy. AmigaVision has more
features than Deluxe Video III or
CanDo, and after using it, I find using
UltraCard and The Director down-
right painful.

By its very nature, the multitask-
ing Amiga is the perfect platform for
multimedia, and AmigaVision is the
easiest-to-use authoring system I've
seen for any personal computer.

PEGGY HERRINGTON

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Iast year ReadySoft released A-
Max, a Macintosh emulator for
the Amiga. After plugging a set of
used Macintosh ROM chips into
the A-Max cartridge, you plugged the
cartridge into your disk drive port,
loaded the A-Max software, and could
run almost all non-copy-protected
Macintosh software on your Amiga.
Unfortunately, the emulator lacked
the ability to use Amiga hard drives
and to play Mac sounds. A Macintosh
with no hard drive is no more fun to
use than an Amiga with no hard
drive, so ReadySoft addressed these
shortcomings with the A-Max II.

The A-Max 11 now allows you to
create Macintosh-format partitions on
Amiga hard drives, as well as allowing
access to Macintosh-specific SCSI de-
vices attached to an Amiga SCSI con-
troller. Your Amiga hard disk
controller must, however, be support-
ed with an A-Max Il-compatible de-
vice driver. Drivers are shipped with
the A-Max II for Commodore's 2090,
2090A, 2091, and A590; GVP control-
len; the IVS Trumpcard; the Xetec

FastCard; and the Preferred Technol-
ogies multifunction board. Drivers for
Supra hard drives and the ICD
AdSCSI board are now available from
the respective controller manufactur-
ers. If your controller isn't on this list,
you should contact the manufacturer
to determine if it is developing an A-
Max II driver.

The second major addition is
support for Mac-digitized sounds. The
Macintosh operating system includes
several system sounds that can now
be played through the Amiga's sound
system. Some older Macintosh soft-
ware accesses the Mac's hardware to
create sounds and won't provide
sound using the A-Max II. Most
newer Mac programs use digitized
sound files and work well under the
A-Max II.

The A-Max II makes transferring
files between Amiga format and A-
Max- or Mac- formatted disks much
easier. With the A-Max II's file-transfer
utility, you can transfer files from a
standard AmigaDOS disk in DFO: to a
Macintosh disk or from any Mac file
to the Amiga disk. The file-transfer
utility will translate text files, convert
pictures between MacPaint and
Amiga IFF formal, transfer binary
files between the systems, and convert
PostScript files to Amiga format.

Like its predecessor, the A-Max
II uses the standard Amiga drives to
create 800K A-Max-format disks that
can be used while emulating the Mac-
intosh. Also included are utilities to
transfer files from a real Macintosh
using a 272K disk that can be created
on the Mac and read by the Amiga.
The Full Disk Transfer utility is sup-
posed to transfer a complete Macin-
tosh disk by creating several transfer
disks that are reassembled under the
A-Max. However, I was never able to
successfully reassemble a disk on the
A-Max side. I recommend that you
invest in a Macintosh drive.

As if these improvements weren't
enough, the A-Max II also has added
support for Amigas with Memory
Management Units (MMUs), allow-
ing increased compatibility during
emulation. Finally, the A-Max II
looks at your system preferences to
determine how to center the Macin-
tosh screen on your monitor. The em-
ulator supports the new screen modes
available with the Enhanced Chip Set
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AMIGA

If you have an Amiga and need to
use Macintosh software, the A-Max II
is a wise investment. I've found that
all the Mac software I need to use (Al-
dus PageMaker 4.0, Microsoft Excel
and Word, and Silicon Beach's Super-
Paint] runs perfectly. With the added
use of my Amiga hard disk and the
sounds emanating from my monitor,
the only clue that I'm not using a real
Mac is the larger Amiga screen — and
the money I saved by not buying a
second computer.

BOB ELLER

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THE ART
DEPARTMENT

ASDG's The Art Department
(TAD) is a 24-bit image-process-
ing program for the Amiga. This
means that each screen pixel is
represented by three bytes (24 bits) of
memory, allowing a palette of 16 mil-
lion colors instead of just 4096. TAD
can use this extra information when
converting pictures from other com-
puters or when choosing colors to dis-
play the best possible Amiga picture.
The Art Department loads Sculpt
4D, Turbo Silver, DigiView, and all
IFF files, including Sliced Ham and
NewTek's Dynamic modes. It can
save in 24-bit IFF and standard IFF
modes (including Dynamic, but not
Sliced Ham). Separately available
disks allow you to import GIF,
DeluxePaint He for the IBM PC,
PCX, TIFF, Targa, and Rendition im-
age files. Unfortunately, while you can
load images in these formats, you
can't save them in these formats. You
can't use TAD as a image processor
for VGA or Targa screens.

TAD is related to ASDG's soft-
ware for the Sharp scanner. As such, it
performs many of the same image-
processing functions as NewTek's
DigiView software. Unfortunately,
TAD is missing a few of DigiView's
bells and whistles. I especially missed
control over color saturation. On the
plus side, TAD has a new control,
Gamma, and a variety of dithering al-
gorithms. The Gamma control allows
you to compensate for the fact that the
visual intensity of the Amiga's 16
brightness levels are not linear. Using
Gamma can help you bring out hid-
den detail in your images.

TAD does a very nice job of con-
verting screens from one Amiga
screen resolution to another. It does
an especially nice job converting to
colorful images in HAM and EHB
into high-resolution 16-color screens.

Match palettes using The Art Department
and combine pictures on one screen.

The user interface is attractive
but difficult. I found a few procedures
tortuous. One advantage of TAD over
DigiView is that you can reserve part
of the palette and let TAD automati-
cally make the best selection for the
rest of the palette. TAD makes the
task difficult, though. Converting a
picture from HAM to EHB with a re-
served palette of 20 colors took a
friend and me the better part of an
afternoon. Though we now have the
procedure memorized, it's a laborous
process that takes numerous mouse
clicks and even a bit of typing.

Although many of TAD's features
have been seen before, it has one
that's been missing from Amiga pro-
grams for a long time: the ability to
scale an image to any size. This is es-
pecially handy for importing GIF and
Targa files that were created on
screens with a higher resolution. This
makes TAD worth its price.

The documentation is adequate,
but only so. Although its descriptions
are reasonable, it lacks step-by-step
tutorials.

Although I am happy with The
Art Department, I'd like to see an up-
grade that allows you to save in any
format you can load. I'd also Uke to
see saturation control and genuine im-
age-processing capabilities such as
those in Progressive Peripherals' PIX-
Male. Unfortunately, the memory re-
quirements for this program make it
unusable for the great majority of
.Amiga owners. I would not recom-
mend The Art Department to an
Amiga owner with less than two
megabytes of memory and a hard
drive. ASDG recommends four mega-
bytes. (Editor's note: ASDG recently
announced The Art Department Pro-
fessional, which adds the capability to
save in non-IFF formats, full ARexx
support, external effects modules, 8-bit
rendering, and multiple palette sizes.
The upgrade should be available this
fall; contact ASDG for details.)

RHETT ANDERSON

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to control your animated character as
you take on your foe in a deadly
sword fight. If you win, you can take
his ship as your own or plunder and
sink it. If you lose, you're likely to be
thrown in the brig and lose all of your
possessions.

When you approach a port city,
you can sail into port or attack and
plunder the town. If you choose to at-
tack, you can bombard the city and
storm the fortress or land near the
town and proceed over land to fight
the local army.

You may decide to sail peacefully
into the harbor. Once in town, you
can visit the merchant to buy and sell
goods (whose prices var\' from port to
port) and repair your vessels. You can
also visit the tavern to recruit rowdy
crew members and buy important
information. Finally, you should visit
the governor; he can make you special
offers and bestow awards upon you.
He might even introduce you to his
beautiful daughter. You continue your
travels until you're captured or you
decide to divide the booty, disband
your crew, and start over.

Microprose did an excellent job
porting this game to the Amiga. The

64-color HalfBrite graphics are plenti-
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installable disks and has an 80-page
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history and folklore. Pirates will
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DIGIIAL ARTIST

Does anyone need a powerful
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128? Digital Artist is a fast, pow-
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draw package designed specifically for
your computer.

Digital Artist has many great fea-
tures that let you produce a wide vari-
ety of images and artwork using a
mouse or joystick. You have 1 8 draw-
ing tools from the tool palette, along
with eight graphics-editing functions.

The tool palette's 1 8 drawing
tools include the capture box, fillet,
spray can, line, arc, text, color, brush,
polylines, and right-angle lines.
Shapes, such as triangles, rectangles,
ellipses, or parallelograms, can also be
created and cither filled or not filled
with colors or patterns.

The eight graphics-editing func-
tions work with the capture box,
which selects the graphic area for the
graphics-editing function to be per-
formed. These functions include cut,
paste, copy, move, clear, inverse, mir-
ror, and rotate. Digital Artist has an
alarm clock as well as a 22-function

scientific calculator, which can be dis-
played at any time from the Tool
menu.

Text can also be created quickly
and easily using this program. First,
you select the font, style, size, align-
ment, and line spacing. Next, use the
WYSIWYG text editor in a selected
area on the screen, called the text box.
Digital Artist automatically wraps the
last word on a line to the beginning of
the next line. You can use the arrow,
Insert/Delete, and Clear/Home keys
to edit your text.

Many program features help you
view images in detail on the drawing
page. Several levels of magnification
let you perform detailed graphic edit-
ing. Except for text, color, and spray
can, you can use all graphic tools un-
der magnification. Scrolling up or
down the page is accomplished man-
ually by using the page-scrolling ar-
rows or automatically by using the
page guide.

Since the 64 is limited in memo-
rv', only part of a file can be displayed
on the screen at a given time. Thus,
the page guide is a useful feature, since
it allows you to quickly go to and
work on other parts of a file. Drawings
are available in three different sizes,
depending on whether you plan to
view graphics on the screen only,
print on a low-resolution graphic
printer, or print on a high-resolution
graphic printer.

Digital Artist is a fast and powerful
drawing and painting program,

As mentioned earlier, you cannot
see the whole file on the screen at once
because of the 64's memory limita-
tions. However, the preview function
lets you view the placement of images
on the full page before printing it out.
The images appear as shadows on the
screen. While you cannot view the ex-
act appearance of the file, this func-

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tion does lei you see how the images
are placed on the page in relation to
each other.

Digital Artist also gives you a
choice of 16 colors, 23 predefined pat-
terns, 14 predefined brush shapes, and
three styles of lines. You can even cre-
ate your own patterns or brush shapes.
Another special feature of the pro-
gram is the Digital Parameter Display
(DPD). This feature updates your
drawing parameters right on the
screen. Coordinate, dimension, length,
and angle parameters are displayed in
near-accurate measurements.

You can build your own clip-art
library with Digital Artist. Once
you've created a graphic image, use
the capture box to select it. A dialog
box appears after you've selected
CUT from the EDIT menu. Just type
in a filename and save the image to a
disk for future use. When you need
the clip-art image, select PASTE from
the EDIT menu and paste the image
anywhere on the page. It's that easy!

Graphic creations can be printed
on several Commodore and non-
Commodore dot-matrix graphic
printers. The program provides you
with 17 printer drivers. Four of the
printer drivers are designed for low-
resolution printers (480 dots horizon-
tal resolution). This means images
will not print in their proper shapes.
There are also 10 drivers for high-
resolution printers (640 dots horizon-
tal resolution), as well as three that
work with color printers. These print-
ers present a much higher quality of
output. At first, I experienced some
difficulties in printing because of an
incompatible printer. However, I did
print with an Epson printer without a
problem. If your printer is not listed,
experiment with the diffferent drivers.
If you have any questions concerning
printers and compatibility, I'd advise
you to call Digital Technology.

Digital Artist is a powerful pro-
gram overall. One of its greatest
strengths is its fast operating speed,
which results from the program code's
being written in assembly language.
Digital Artist also includes a feature
called Turbo DOS. This lets you per-
form functions, which include save,
load, and format, in significantly less
time than using the 64's traditional
disk operating system.

.Another strength is its wide vari-
ety of features and functions. The pro-

gram does not include online help;
however, its well-documented, easy-
to-understand manual and its menu
system make it user friendly. Most of
the onscreen icons, which represent
functions, are also self-explanatory.

Another advantage is its error
handling. It's nearly impossible to
make a fatal error with this program.
If you do make a mistake, you will get
an error message that tells you what to
do. For example, I had the wrong disk
in the drive, and an error message
alerted me to insert the correct one.

One major drawback of this pro-
gram is its inability to display the full
page of images. First, you can't view a
full page of images exactly as they're
supposed to appear. Second, it's hard
to draw a full-page image if you can't
see the full image on the screen as you
draw. However, as mentioned earlier,
this is due to the 64's memory limita-
tions and is not a flaw in the software
program.

Overall, I rate this program high-
ly. It has enough features to make it
useful and productive. If you're look-
ing for a great drawing program for
the 64, why not consider Digital
Artist?

CHRIS STAWASZ

Ease of Use

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JiffyDOS 6.0, a worthy successor
to an excellent version 5.0, is a set
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and disk drive. The 128 set con-
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JiffyDOS offers this increased
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One can switch easily between Jiffy-
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JiffyDOS is particularly useful
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Installation is quite simple. It is
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One note of caution! Check first
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As with JiffyDOS 5.0, version 6.0
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The bad news is that you have to
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tion. But the fact remains thai you
can't change a few cracial function
key definitions in direct mode when-
ever you wish.

JiffyDOS supports Commodore
RAM expansion units (REU), allow-
ing you to access an REU jusl hke a
disk drive. For two-drive systems, the
flexible dual copier should prove use-
ful. You can easily specify source and
destination drives and freely mix
drive types, including those not modi-
fied with JiffyDOS.

Several other features common
to JiffyDOS 5.0 and 6.0 are notewor-
thy. Onscreen directories are never
overwritten by the computer, and all
JiffyDOS wedge commands may be
used from within BASIC programs. In
version 6.0, these commands include
the expanded copier commands. You
can even write your own custom copy
programs. Text and program files can
be read from disk directly without
corrupting memory. These files and
the screen can be dumped directly to a
printer, also without affecting memo-
ry. This process is much easier, how-
ever, with version 6.0.

I do have one small bone to pick.
Although JiffyDOS offers a purport-
edly bug-free, save-with-replace rou-
tine, you cannot use it from the
onscreen directory. You must first
scratch a file and then resave. Unfor-
tunately, it is quite inconvenient to do
both of these things from a single
directory.

If you are looking for a moderately
priced, full-featured ROM replace-
ment, JiffyDOS is for you. Creative
Micro Design supports its products
well, and it is one of the few companies
still actively developing accessories for
the 64 and 128. This innovative com-
pany deserves the support of Commo-
dore users.

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have strange names, Capture Daflag,
for example, they all appear to be
quite conventional.

Other features are available from
user-friendly menus. Choose the
length of quarters, a computer or hu-
man opponent, computer or human
selection of various options, and
whether to play or to create a new
team, field, or playbook.

You make your play selections
between downs, but loading each play
takes about 30 seconds. This adds ap-
proximately 20 minutes of waiting
time to an 8-minute game and nearly
two hours to a 40-minute one. Imag-
ine an NFL game taking ten hours
and you'll have some idea of how long
that is.

The program's graphics make
only moderate use of the 64's capabili-
ties. The fields and moving figures are
colorful and individualized, yet they
and the text especially appear unclear
and indistinct.

Sound effects are somewhat dis-
appointing. We do hear the slashing of
swords, the cannon's roar, and a vari-
ety of other bells and whistles. Miss-
ing, however, are the cheering of the
crowd, the grunting of players, and the
sound of bodies crunching.

The instruction manual is geared
toward the MS-DOS version, but an
insert lists the specifics for the 64.
Though not error free, the documen-
tation is concise and easy to follow.

The rules of the sport have been
so simplified that most strategy-
oriented football fans will find that
the game lacks challenge. Likewise,
because the hacking and slashing tech-
niques are so basic. Dungeons &
Dragons fans may lose interest quick-
ly. Those who like their football down
and dirty, however, will want to bury
themselves in Grave Yardage for hours.

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Employing an updated version of
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ies Group presents MacArthur's
War, a war game that depicts eight
battles in the Korean Conflict.

Termed a police action, this
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hostilities (June 1950 to April 1951),
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The entire game is menu driven.
Your first choices, via keyboard, in-
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much of a handicap to give yourself or
your opponent, and which army to
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other human. Once inside the game,
branching menus allow you to issue
orders and gather vital information
about the armies, objectives, and oth-
er elements. With the help of the in-
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skillfiil in manipulating this system.

Scenarios vary in length, allowing
for contests lasting from 30 minutes
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four regiments, which in turn are
comprised of a number of battalions.

Unlike in other combat simula-
tions, you have no direct command
over individual pieces. Instead, you

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In addition to detailed game in-
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battles, and directions for revising ex-
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With WarPlan, SSG's war game
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graphic designs.

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hierarchically by categories.

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categories are Nature, Science and
Technology, Domestic Life, Institu-
tions, Arts and Entertainment, Lan-
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is needed to run the program and in-

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really no reason to purchase the prod-
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or view with the pull-down menu.

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slide the blocks along any of the four
walls as you guide the blocks into
place at the bottom. You can elimi-
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both at the same time.

If any part of a block comes to
rest on a wall, that wall is blocked for
your next three moves. The game
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to the top or when all four walls are
blocked.

As a Teiris devotee (that's one
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strategy: figuring out how to place the
two-dimensional pieces into a three-
dimensional grid, getting used to both
vertical and horizontal scoring, and
learning to use the well's four corners
to create new shapes from old ones.

I especially like to use the corner
strategy. If you wrap a block across
one of the four corners and drop it,
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DForm Lettere (1607) 100 business and
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D Stock Charting (1612) A complete
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nPC-Books(1621)Acomplete, easy to
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D PC-Loans (1628) This package sup-
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DEasy Project (1629) A powerful
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n FOrmGen (1830) Design and print any
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DFormFiK (1631) Helps you more
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UACS fn-Control (1644, 1645) A com-
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D Power Desk (1653) A complete desk-
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ElKwikStat (1314,1315) A professional
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DATABASE/MAIL LIST

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DOr. Data Label (1717) A professional

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SPREADSHEETS

D As-Easy-As (1805) FANTASTIC Lotus
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D Lotus Macros (1807) A large collec-
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n On-Side (1506) Prints your spread-
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EDUCATION

Dspanish i & il (1205,1206) Spanish
vocabulary and verb drills. (2 disks)

D Pre-Calcuius (1218) An excellent pre-
catc tutor Reviews algebra and trig.

D World (1221) A computer encyclope-
dia of global information. CGA

DTypIng Tutor (1224) Helps you
improve your speed and skill. CGA

D Balloon Speller (1230) An introduc-
tion to spelling for children. CGA

DMalh Lessons (1233) A great pro-
gram that teaches algebra. C6A

D Computer Tutor (1235) Become a
more effective computer user.

DPiay 'n' Learn (1236) A collection of
learning games for kids, '-'i/i

DGoogoi Math (1243) A math learning
system for several grade levels. CGA

n Total Recall (1245) This program
helps you to quickly memorize words
and information on any subject.

n School Mom (1251) Teaches kids
(2-14) the basics of art, music, spell-
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DWoid Whiz (1252) A challenging word
game that tests your vocabulary.

n Word Gallery (1256) Teaches children
to associate the printed word with the
object it describes.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS 3.0

D Almanac (1470) A lantastic calendar

program with many features.
D Active Life (1472) Keep your life

organized with this great scheduler
D Icons (1480) A collection of over 250

icons to be used with Windows 3.0.
n Wallpaper (1484) A great collection of

wallpaper for Windows 3.0.

WORD PROCESSING

D Readability Plus (1340) A computer-
ized writing style analyzer

[E PC-Write 3.03 (1851-1853) The BEST
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Learn all (he powerful new features of
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[EClipArt (1875,1876) A huge collection
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□ Letter Blltzer (1882) A mail merge
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HOME and FAMILY

□ CheckMate (1 1 02) A complete check-
book manager Handles unlimited
accounts and does reconciliation.

□ Home Budget Manager (1103) Tracks
all your household expenses and
helps you to set budgets and goals.

□ Home Inventory (1105) Keeps track of
all your personal property.

□ Edna's Cookbook (1118, 1119) An elec-
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recipes— add your own! (2 disks)

[H Brother's Keeper (1120,1121) A great
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trace your family history (2 disks).

□ Will Kit (1343) Create your own will
valid in all 50 states.

GRAPHICS/PRINTING

□ Banner Maker (1502) Prints banners
in various sizes, styles, and fonts.

□ PrintShop Graphics (1503) A large
collection of Printshop clip art.

□ PC-Art (1509) A color graphics paint-
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MISC. APPLICATIONS

SWIsdom of the Ages (1316-1319)
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□ Electronic Almanac (1341) A great
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music or play the keyboard.

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into a drum machine!

UTILITIES

□ Automenu (1409) A very professional
hard disk menu system. Run any of
your programs from a custom menu.

□ ALT (1413) It's like Norton Utililies, the
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menu program all in one!

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backup/restore all the data on your
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□ Q-Edit (1427) Our favorite screen/text
editor Hundreds of features, beauti-
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□ 4D0S (1431) Complete COMMAND.
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□ VrrusScan (1440) Make sure your
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GAMES

□ AdventureWaie (1934) Five excellent
adventure games.

□ Baseball (1916) Great arcade action
and baseball strategy. CGA

□ Conquer (1984) Try to take over as
much of the world as you can. Simi-
lar to Risk. CGA

□ Cribbage Partner (1947) A very realis-
tic cribbage simulation.

□ Double Blocks (1970) A TERRIFIC
Tetris clone for 1 or 2 players.
Records top scores. You will love this!

□ l8-Hole Miniature Golf (1915) Kids
really love this one! CGA

□ Insanity (1946) Find your way out of
this maze before you go insane! CGA

□ Kid Games (1938) These games are
bolh fun and educational. CGA

□ Kingdom of Kroz (1952) An excellent,
award-winning adventure game.

□ McMurptiy's Mansion (1966) Search
a spooky Scoltish castle for treasure.

□ PAC-Man & More! (1930) PAC-Man
and Ms. PAC-Man clones. CGA

□ PC Jigsaw (1976) Creates a beautiful
puzzle for you to put back together.

□ PC-Pro Golf II (1975) Choose your
club and swing away at one of the
world's most beautiful country clubs
(Amherst). Excellent graphics! CGA

□ PInball (1941) Great sound and fast
play on 5 different "machines." CGA

□ Pharaoh's Tomb (1974) Face mon-
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pyramid. Your goal is to survive! CGA

□ Popcorn (1913) A great improvement
over Breakout with many neat fea-
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□ Power Chess (1961) An excellent
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□ Scrabble (1957) Test your word power
with this always fun game. CGA

□ sharks (1917) An underwater action
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□ Sports Games (1927) Bowling, arch-
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□ Star Trek (1948) Two versions for all
you TREKiBS out there.

□ Strategic Games (1926) Fight on land
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□ SUPER Arcade I (1906) A collection
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fantastic pinball games. CGA

□ Tommy's Trivia (1949) Test your
knowledge in several categories.

□ video Poker/Ultima 21 (1945) The
BEST poker and blackjack games!

□ Wheel of Misfortune (1935) Like TV's
Wheel of Fortune game.

EGA GAMES

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□ Captain Comic (1961) The BEST
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□ EGA Coloring Book (1963) A graphi-
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□ Frac (1991) A three-dimensional
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the split pieces hits an obstruction,
both it and the other piece freeze in
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The Mac version features excel-
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white and color versions in the same
package (unfortunately, there's no
desk accessor^' version, as there is
with Teirls), and easy-to-use pull-
down menus for the various game
options.

If you're one of the unsuspecting
millions who fell in love with Tetris,
you owe it to yourself to try Weill ris.
It's more than just a quickie sequel —
it's an authentic chip off the old block.

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As I booted up CE Software's new
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Paint, I had to ask myself why the
Mac world needs yet another 1 -bit
paintbox. The zillions of free copies of
MacPaint and SuperPain! floating
around have soured the market for
competitors; NuPaint and Cricket
Paint bombed in that market last
year, and Stiidio/1 survives only on
its animation capabilities. Meanwhile,
many Mac artists are being lured away
from 1 -bit programs with ultrasexy
32-bit color paint/retouching pro-
grams such as Pixel Paint Profession-
al, PhotoShop, ColorStudio. and
Studio/32 — or they're abandoning bit-
mapped graphics entirely for Post-
Script drawing programs such as
Illustrator and. Freehand. So who
needs a modest little program like
Amazing Paint?

There's nothing flashy or mind-
expanding about Amazing Paint — no
integrated draw tools, animation, im-

age processing, talking lassos, or any-
thing like that. This is pure black-and-
white paint, pretty much the way you
remember it from MacPaint. In fact,
if you've used any other Macintosh
paint program, you know how to use
almost everything m Amazing Paint.
it's so easy to learn. But the program
is well named: It has all of the little
enhancements that you wish Mac-
Paint had, as well as some amazing
tools that, frankly, I fell in love with.

There's all the usual stuff, of
course: a variety of selection and
shape tools, the pencil, eraser, fill
bucket, and so on — all available from
a tear-off toolbox. However, most of
the tools have new options that can be
called from a panel on the right of the
toolbox — which is much easier than
going to the menu bar for everything.

For example, pop-up windows
allow the spray can to be adjusted for
spray size, spray pattern, and spray
speed, making it more like a real air-
brush. The spray-pattern options win-
dow offers several ways to super-
impose the selected pattern on your
drawing (under the existing drawing,
over the drawing, blended with it, and
so on), with each method shown in a
test window as you select it. Instant
feedback like this is a timesaving fea-
ture that's typical of this program.

Other thoughtful touches include
smooth autoscrolling; multiple levels
of undo and redo; rotation and scaling
of selections in angles and percent-
ages; a magic wand that selects only
inside a bounded region; several ways
to magnify the screen, including one
that follows the movement of the cur-
sor; and a billboard-printing feature
that blows up your graphic to fill mul-
tiple pages, with crop and registration
marks for taping the sheets together
after printing. And the program is sai-
isfyingly fast. EfTects rarely lagged be-
hind the cursor even on my Mac Plus;
on a Ilex, everything snapped to
instantly.

This program has two of the
nicest gadgets I've seen in any paint-
box. One customizes the shape of ar-
rowheads for use with dimensioning
lines and technical-drawing callouts.
By dragging just three handles, you
can make any arrowhead under the
sun in about two seconds, something
that can't be accomplished even on
many high-end CAD programs.

The other gadget is the mouse-

Statement of ownersliip, management and circulation (Act of
August 12. 1970; Section 3685. Title 39. United States Code).
1. Title of publication; COMPUTE. 2. Date of filing: September
28. 1990. 3. Frequency of issue: Published montiily. A. Location
of knqvm office of publication; 1965 Broadway, Mew ftrk. MY
10023-5965. 5. Location of headquarters of general business
offices of publistier; 1965 Broadway. New York, Hen York
10023-5965, 6. Names, addresses of publisher, editor, and
managing editor; Piiblishei; R. C. Guccione, 1965 Broadway.
New Yodt NY 10023-5965. Editor Peter Sdsco. 324 West
Wendover A/e.. Greensboro. NC 27408. Managing Editor; David
Hensley. Jr. 324 West Wendover *e„ Greensboro, NC 27403.
7. Owner: Ttie names and addresses of stockholders owning or
holding one percenl or more of total amount of slock; COM-
PLTTE Publications Intl.. Ltd.. 1965 Broadway, New ftrk. NY
10023-5965; Generai Media Publishing Group. Inc. 1965
Broadway. New York, NY 10023-5965; General fkledia Inter-
national. Inc., 1965 Broadway. New York, NY 10023-5965. A
tnjst for the benefit of the R. C. Guccione Famity. Grand Cay-
man, Cayman Islands. B.W.I.: R. C. Guccione. 1965 Broadway,
New York. NY 10023-5965. 8. Knovm bondholders, inort-
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cent Of more total amounts of bonds, mortgages, or other
securities: None. /Verage number of copies of each issue during
preceding 12 months: (A) Total number of copies printed:
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dealers and earners, street vendors, counter sales; 47.359. 2.
I^ail subscriptions paid and/or requested; 209.921. (C) Total
paid and/or requested circulation; 257.280. (D) Free distribution
by mail, carrier or ottier means, samples, complimentary, and
other free copies: 3.000. (E) Total distribution: 260,280. (F)
Copies not distributed; 1. Office use, left orer, unaccounted,
spoiled after printing; 14.000. 2. Return from News Agents:
144.875. (G) Total: 389,155. Actual number of copies of single
issiie published nearest to filing date: (A) Total number of copies
printed: 368,21 4. (B) Paid and/or requested circulation: 1 . Sales
through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales;
47.280. 2. Mali subscriptions paid and/or requested: 266.854.
(C| Total paid by mail, carrier, or other means, samples, tom-
piimentary, and other free copies; 3.000- (E) Total distribution:
277.134. (F) Copies not distributed: 1. Office use. left over, un-
accounted, spoiled after pnnting; 14.000. 2. Rettirn from neviis
agents: 77,080. (G) Total; 366,214. 1 certify that trie statements
made by me are coned and ramplete; John Prebich, Exectrtve
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tracking window. It tells you, in real-
time, the exact (x,y) screen
coordinates of the cursor, in pixels,
inches, or centimeters, as well every-
thing you'd ever want to know about
how you're moving a selection — size
of selection, distance moved from
original position, and angle moved.
I'm not sure how useful mouse track-
ing is (if you want exact placement of
selections, there's a fully adjustable
grid that's a snap to use) but I sure en-
joyed playing with it.

The feeling I got when I used
Amazing Paint was, "Finally, some-
one took MacPaint and did it over
right, at the right price." It makes you
want to try 1-bit paint again, for the
first time.

STEVEN .ANZOViN

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Brief 3.0

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Walt Disney Computer

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Bed Storm Rising

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Amiga

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far more interesting. Barry Brenesa!

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Amiga with 1MB

Sierra On-Line
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METAPHYSICAL SOFTWARE l-OR THE C64/128!
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FREEI IBM PD & SHAREWARE DISK CATALOG

Specify 5','< or 3V:, l.oiv prices since 1988!
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Free PD C64-128 Software 1000+ European-
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Specify disk type. Incltjde $3 S&H. State 21.
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ADULT SOFTWARE: Amiga-IBfil VGA. Free Lists.
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ORGANIZER (IBM)-Voluntcer Chairmen
organize volunteers by your own categories.
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GRAPHICS AND GAMES TUTOR-CGA Ver. 1.0
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PA 19609 215-678-4513 (specify 5'/. or 3V:)

3-D PAPER DOLLS!!

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Lancaster, CA 93536.

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THE HOTTEST AND LATEST EUROPEAN GAMES
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for J C64/128 or AMIGA on-disk catalog & sample,
THE GAME SH0P2, Bos 491, New York, NY 11375.

WIN LOTTO MILLIONS!

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COMPUTE Classified is a low-cost way to tell over 275,000 microcomputer
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VIDEO DATABASE. Great gift for those who
have everything. Don't lose videos any-
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Senii S24.95 to MFC Video. P.O. Box 251,
Glyndon, MD 21071. Call (703) 232-5277.

TEST unteleased software for $S$S$S.
Send S5.00 for information & application
kit to Silicon Mountain Services,
Box 52339, Colo. Springs, CO 80962-2339.

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A & M Computer Repair

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C64, 128, Amiga & PC. 1541, Drive
alignments $39.95. 4S-hr. turnaround,
free UPS, Software Citv, 901-C N. Wendover
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IS YOUR MONITOR AT THE CORRECT HEIGHT?
Answers to al! computer use problems,
Julia S. Lacey's "How to Survive Your
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214-835-8252. Box 346, Linden, TX 75563,

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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HARDWARE

DISK DRIVE LOCK for 3.5' disk drive units
Blocks all access to PC operating system
Low cost, safe & very easy to use device
$19.95 -I- 2,00 S&H to: Discoverv Products
3128 Prentis Drive, Trov, Ml 48098-3482.

MISCELLANEOUS

BLANK KEYBOARD TEMPLATES if you have
games that came with pre-printed
templates, you know how much help Ihey
can be. Kill in the blanks on my over-
lays and forget going back to the manual
for every keystroke. Works for utility
programs. Keyboard type, $9.95 for pkg,
of 3 + 1,50 for S&H to Whitney, R.R.#1, Box 55
Newark, IL 60541 Visa-MC-800-468-4627.

DECEMBER 1990 COMPUTE

119

HOTWARE

SOFTWARE BESTSELLERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY

HOME PRODUCTIVITY

1. Quicken

Manage your finances.

Inluit

IBM, Maclntosti

2. The New Print Shop

Make signs, cards, banners, and
more.

Brederbund

Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64/128, IBM,

Macintosh

3. Calendar Creator Plus

Create many different calendars.
Power Up
IBM. Macintosh

4. PC Globe 3.0

Explore world demographics,

PC Gtobe

IBM

5. Microsoft Works 2.0

Integrated home oiTice solution,

Microsoft

IBM, Macintosh

6. My Advanced Mail List

Track your friends and clients.

My SottwafB
IBM, Macintosh

7. PFS: First Publisher 3.0

Create professional-looking
documents.

Softvrare Publishing
IBM

8. World Atlas

Navigate the world from your PC.

Software Toolworlfs
IBM

9. Resume Kit

Design winning resumes.

Spinnaker
IBM. Macinlosli

10. PC Nations

.Add features to PC Globe 3.0,

KGIotje

IBM

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

1. SimCity

Run the world's first simulated city.

Maxis

Amiga, Commodore 64/128, IBM, Macintosh

2. Tetris

Deceptively addicting falling-block

game.

Spectrum HoloByte

Amiga, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64/128,

Matantosh

3. Flight Simulator

Head for the wild blue yonder.

Microsoft

IBM. Macintosh

4. ChessMaster 2100

Board strategy that isn't boring.

Electronic Arts

Apple II, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64/128, IBM

5. Flight of the Intruder

Fly missions o\er Vietnam.
Spectrum HoloByte
Arniga, IBM

6. Nicklaus Unlimited Golf

Tee off with Jack.

Accolade
I3M

7. Centurion; Defender of
Rome

Conquer the ancient world.

Electronic Arts
IBM

8. The Duel: Test Drive II

Go on the road again.

Accolade

Amiga, Apple Has, Commodore 64/128, iSM,

Macintosh

9. PGA Tour Golf

Hit the greens with the masters.

Electronic Arts

IBM

10. Life and Death

Your chance to play doctor.
Software Toolworks
Apple IIgs,. IBM, Macintosh

HOME LEARNING

1. Mavis Beacon Teaches
Typing

Learn to touch-type.

Electronic Arts

Apple II, Apple llGS, Commodore 64/128, IBM,

Macintosh

2. The Playroom

Kids learn on their own.

Broderbund

IBM

3. Where in the World Is
Carmen Sandiego?

Chase Carmen around the world.

Broderljund

Amiga, Apple II. Commodore 64/128, IBM,

Macintosh

4. Reader Rabbit

Helps children learn to read.

The Learning Company

Apple II, Commodore 64/128. IBM, Macintosh

5. Where in the USA Is
Carmen Sandiego?

The chase moves to the USA,

Broderbuhd

Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64/128, IBM,

Macintosh

6. Math Blaster Plus!

Teaches basic math concepts.
DaviilsDn & Associates
Apple II, Apple IIgs, IBM

7. Where in Time Is Carmen
Sandiego?

Can you find Carmen in time?

Brederbund
IBM

8. Outnumbered!

Super Solvers is back.
The Learning Company
IBM

9. Computer SAT
Preparation

Study with the help of the computer.

Study Ware

Apple, IBM, Macinlosd

10. Math Rabbit

Build early math skills.

The Learning Company

Apple II, Commrxiore 64/128, IBM, Macintosh

compute's Hotware lists were prepared by Egghead Discount Software and are based on retail sales of
Apple II, Macintosh, and IBM software from July 22 through August 18, 1990, at 188 Egghead stores in the
United States and Canada.

The Ad Lib Music Card:
Open your ears and blow your mind.

Asteroids are hurtling by. Enemy photons are de-
stroying the rear deflectors. Engines strain as they
reach critical mass. Suddenly you hit the retros, loop
[ around, and fire with everything you've got.

And what kind of awesome, breath-taking music
is your computer playing? "Bleep, bop, beep." Pretty weak, eh?

Well listen up. Because now there's the Ad Lib Music Card,
it's the digital music synthesizer that's conquering the final frontier
of truly realistic game playing— totally ear-blasting sound.

Confront the dark overlord, and Ad Lib's fl-piece orchestra
will back you up with gutsy, heart-swelling music. And if you meet

an untimely death, rest assured that Ad Lib's funeral dirge will bring
tears to the eyes of your loved ones.

In fact, the Ad Lib sound is so hot, major game developers are
now designing dozens of new adventures with special soundtracks
just for the Ad Lib Music Card.

Call us at 1-800-463-2686 for the name of your nearest
dealer, for more information, and for the ever-growing list
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Compatible
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Here are just some of the
hottest new computSf games
designed for use with tiie
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Davidson's
NEW Math Blaster Plus

Electronic Arts'
PGA TOUS' Golf

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WollPack

The Learning Campanv's

Super Solvefs

Tieasute Mountain!

Tilus'
Wild Streets

System lequiraments: IBM PC, XT. AT, o: ccmpatible with 256K RAM, DOS 2.0 or higher. CGA, EGA, or monochrome graphics adaptor, and headset or exlernai speaker.
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Circle Reader Service Number 139

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m King Graham and Cedric the talking owl through
JL the eerie gloom of the Dark Forest, across blazing
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the missing royal family ofDaveniry. The viiridgame
scenes, lifelike animation arid breathtaking soundtrack
mil transport you on a fabulous journey to another world
where characters will actucUly sfxak to you and each
other in their own voices. ' No taping is required, so
family members of all ages can travel along.
It's not like playing a game - it's like being there.
Exfferience the magical uorld of King's
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Available on Disk and CD!